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guppy

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun guppy has 1 sense

guppy(n = noun.animal) lebistes reticulatus, rainbow fish - small freshwater fish of South America and the West Indies; often kept in aquariums; Array

is a kind of cyprinodont

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CIDE DICTIONARY

guppy, n. [Named after R. J. L. Guppy, who brought speciments to the British museum. RHUD].

A small freshwater fish of South America and West Indies (Lebistes reticulatus or Poecilia reticulata, originaly called Gerardinus guppyi), often kept in aquariums; also called rainbow fish. [WordNet 1.5]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

guppy, n. (pl. -ies) a freshwater fish, Poecilia reticulata, of the W. Indies and S. America, frequently kept in aquariums, and giving birth to live young.

Etymology

R. J. L. Guppy, 19th-c. Trinidad clergyman who sent the first specimen to the British Museum

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