flowerhorn

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noun

A brightly-coloured ornamental cichlid with a distinctive nuchal hump.

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Meanings

nounflowerhorn (plural flowerhorns)

plural flowerhorns

  1. A brightly-coloured ornamental cichlid with a distinctive nuchal hump.

    Could you give information on flowerhorns? I have heard that they were formed by crossbreeding blood-red parrot cichlids to trimacs. Is that true?

    2006, Tropical Fish Hobbyist, volume 54, numbers 9-12, page 19

Origin

From flower + horn.

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Translations

Indonesian louhan, ikan louhan
  • louhanfish
  • ikan louhanfish
Cite this entry
APA

flowerhorn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flowerhorn

MLA

“flowerhorn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flowerhorn. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flowerhorn,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flowerhorn.

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