POECILIID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poeciliid mean? 

• POECILIID (noun)
  The noun POECILIID 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: POECILIID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POECILIID (noun)

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 ("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)