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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK] a kind of fish.]

(Zool.)

One of the

Chromidæ

, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the

bulti

of the Nile.

chromid ‎(plural chromids)

(zoology) One of the Chromidae, a family of freshwater fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa.