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killifish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun killifish has 1 sense
- killifish(n = noun.animal) Array - small mostly marine warm-water carp-like schooling fishes; used as bait or aquarium fishes or in mosquito control; Array is a kind of cyprinodont
has particulars: fundulus heteroclitus, mummichog, fundulus majalis, may fish, mayfish, striped killifish, rivulus, american flagfish, flagfish, jordanella floridae
CIDE DICTIONARY
killifish, n.
Any one of several small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus and allied genera. They live equally well in fresh and brackish water, or even in the sea. They are usually striped or barred with black. Called also minnow , and brook fish . See Minnow. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
killifish, n.
1 any small fresh- or brackish-water fish of the family Cyprinodontidae, many of which are brightly coloured.
2 a brightly-coloured tropical aquarium fish, Pterolebias peruensis.
1 any small fresh- or brackish-water fish of the family Cyprinodontidae, many of which are brightly coloured.
2 a brightly-coloured tropical aquarium fish, Pterolebias peruensis.
Etymology
perh. f. kill stream f. Du. kil + FISH(1)
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