Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cichlid

1 sense of cichlid

Sense 1
cichlid, cichlid fish -- (freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums)
       => percoid fish, percoid, percoidean -- (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)