An anagram contains all the same letters, used the same number of times,
as in the starting word(s). For example, you can rearrange the letters in
rearrange to make rare anger.
(But why would you? It's such a good way to procrastinate. Ah!
"Procrastinate" ... Rapt creations!
Rarest caption! Satanic report! Erotic Spartan! Prostrate Inca!
Tapir ancestor! Catnip roaster! Sapient carrot!)
I used the now-defunct Webster Anagram Engine (but the even better Internet Anagram Server is available) as an aid in deriving the following anagrams for the Mbuna flock (or you can skip the Mbuna and jump to "Hap" flock anagrams.) Granted, most are nothing more than engaging gibberish — but some of the anagrams, if you know the fish, seem eerily appropriate.
| Mbuna Genus | Anagrams | |
| Cyathochromis | Charity smooch Catchy Moorish Thomas Chicory Ohio's McCarthy | |
| Cynotilapia | Captain Oily Italian copy A typical ion A nil opacity | |
| Genyochromis | Cooing rhymes Heroics on gym Cringes, ooh my! | |
| Gephyrochromis | Grim psycho hero Echo shrimp orgy Shiré orgy - chomp! Choose pig myrrh Some Pyrrhic hog Cosy high romper | |
| Iodotropheus | Oh, do I posture! Hideous troop! Hi, odorous pet Shoot up or die The odious pro Duo hopes I rot | |
| Labeotropheus | Oho! Subtle rape Pleasure booth Taboo spherule Bluest Pooh ear Hoopla subtree Reputable? Shoo! Oh subtle opera Oblate Orpheus | |
| Labidochromis | Ribald smooch I A rhombic solid Claim his brood His cordial mob Moloch is rabid Solid cobra, him Basic drool, him Slim orchid boa Homicidal, robs Macho bird soil Ah, limbic odors Rich Somali bod | |
| Maylandia | Lady mania: A daily man. A lady man, I I, a damn lay In a malady Day animal A layman ID | |
| Melanochromis | Machismo loner Homeric salmon Hail, commoners! Claim hormones Immoral chosen Harmonic moles | |
| Metriaclima (synonym of Maylandia) | Martial mice Miami cartel Metrical aim Maim article I'm rectal, am I? | |
| Petrotilapia | A polite tapir Taipei patrol A pirate pilot A patriot pile I, partial poet Portia Pilate Rat lip opiate | |
| Pseudotropheus | Spouted Orpheus Shouted purpose Ephesus dropout Supported house Thou superposed Uprooted, pushes |
And do you have the stamina for . . . Anagrams of the "Hap" flock genera?
| Last Update: 13 May 1999
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