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noun (plural guppies) Etymology: R.J.L. Guppy died 1916 Trinidadian naturalist Date: 1925 a small bony fish (Poecilia reticulata of the family Poeciliidae) especially of Barbados, Trinidad, and Venezuela that is a live-bearer and is often kept as an aquarium fish ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (pl. -ies) a freshwater fish, Poecilia reticulata, of the W. Indies and S. America, frequently kept in aquariums, and giving birth to live young. Etymology: R. J. L. Guppy, 19th-c. Trinidad clergyman who sent the first specimen to the British Museum ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ n plural guppies a small brightly-coloured tropical fish gurgle ~1 v 1 if something such as a stream gurgles, it makes a low sound, like water flowing through a pipe 2 if a baby gurgles, it makes this kind of sound in its throat - gurgling adj (a gurgling stream) ~2 n the sound of gurgling ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1925, named for J.L. Guppy, who supplied the first specimen (1866) to the British Museum. The family name is from a place in Dorset. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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