noun
bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil
• Syn: ↑pudding-wife, ↑Halicoeres radiatus
• Hypernyms: ↑wrasse
• Member Holonyms: ↑Halicoeres, ↑genus Halicoeres
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun (plural puddingwives)Etymology: from obsolete English, woman who sells sausage, from Middle English podyngwyf, from podyng, pudding blood sausage + wyf, wif woman — more at pudding, wife
: a large blue and bronze wrasse (Iridio radiata) of Florida and the West Indies south to Brazil
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/pood"ing wuyf'/, n., pl. puddingwives /-wuyvz'/.
a bluish and bronze wrasse, Halichoeres radiatus, of the Atlantic coast from the Florida Keys to Brazil.
[1725-35; cf. late ME podyngwyf a woman who sells sausages. See PUDDING, WIFE]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.