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    POECILIID

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    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)

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