ˌkad. ə lˈüfə noun
( -s )
Etymology: American Spanish, from Spanish, variegated material used in making carpets, from Old Italian cataluffa, a cloth made in Venice
: any of various brightly colored carnivorous marine percoid fishes (family Priacanthidae) of tropical seas ; especially : a fish ( Priacanthus arenatus ) of the western Atlantic and West Indies