POECILIID

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters; often used in mosquito control

Synonyms:

live-bearer; poeciliid; poeciliid fish; topminnow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("poeciliid" is a kind of...):

cypriniform fish (a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poeciliid"):

Gambusia affinis; mosquitofish (silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control)

platy; Platypoecilus maculatus (small stocky Mexican fish; popular aquarium fish)

mollie; molly (popular aquarium fish)

Holonyms ("poeciliid" is a member of...):

family Poeciliidae; Poeciliidae (topminnows)