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LIVE-BEARER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does live-bearer mean?
• LIVE-BEARER (noun)
The noun LIVE-BEARER has 1 sense:
1. small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters; often used in mosquito control
Familiarity information: LIVE-BEARER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters; often used in mosquito control
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
live-bearer; poeciliid; poeciliid fish; topminnow
Hypernyms ("live-bearer" is a kind of...):
cypriniform fish (a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "live-bearer"):
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 ("live-bearer" is a member of...):
family Poeciliidae; Poeciliidae (topminnows)
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