ˈkrōməˌdēz, -räm- noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, irregular from Chromis, genus of fishes, from Latin chromis, a sea fish, from Greek; perhaps akin to Greek chremizein to neigh — more at grim
in some classifications : an order of spiny-finned fishes comprising the percoid families Cichlidae and Pomacentridae and sometimes related forms