单词 | millions fish |
释义 | > as lemmasmillions fish 3. In plural = guppy n.1 Also millions fish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Atheriniformes > [noun] > member of family Poecilidae (guppy) top minnow1884 millions1906 guppy1925 1906 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 345/2 A tiny fish known locally by the name of ‘millions’. 1908 Science 18 Dec. 885/2 ‘Millions’ are among the most active natural enemies of mosquitos. 1924 Glasgow Herald 2 June 11/2 In Barbadoes..the natives are accustomed to keep in their rain barrels the minute fish known as ‘millions’... Hence the absence of mosquitoes. 1966 D. W. Tucker tr. G. Sterba Freshwater Fishes of World (ed. 2) 568 Lebistes reticulatus... Guppy, Millions Fish. Venezuela, Barbados, Trinidad, parts of northern Brazil and Guiana. 1993 Aquarist & Pondkeeper Oct. 41/1 The Guppy, also occasionally referred to as the Millions Fish, is the smallest of the popular livebearers. < as lemmas |
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