CHARACIN Synonyms

• an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

• the pointed part of barbed wire

• a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove

• one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather

• provide with barbs

• type genus of the family Catostomidae

• primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth

• small mostly marine warm-water carp-like schooling fishes; used as bait or aquarium fishes or in mosquito control

• someone who attacks in search of booty

• small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals

• any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn

• a tributary of the Snake River in Idaho

• flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae

• a pale pinkish orange color

• of orange tinged with pink

• brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes

• (chiefly in combination) Any of various fish of the genera Danio and Devario.

• Any freshwater fish of the genus Thymallus or specifically Thymallus thymallus, of the salmon family, having a large dorsal fin.

• Other similar fish

• A species of butterfly, Hipparchia semele, of the family Nymphalidae.

• Other butterflies of genus Hipparchia.

• Cercyonis pegala (common wood-nymph)

• any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae

• any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae