guppy

Definitions


[ˈɡʌpi], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a small live-bearing freshwater fish widely kept in aquaria. Native to tropical America, it has been introduced elsewhere to control mosquito larvae


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Origin:
1920s: named after R. J. Lechmere Guppy (1836–1916), a Trinidadian who sent the first specimen to the British Museum




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