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Tiny fish
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guppy
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Wikipedia
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Guppy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Darius Guppy , public school fraudster Eileen Guppy (1903–1980), British geologist Henry B. Guppy (1854–1926), British botanist Henry Guppy (librarian) (1861–1948), British librarian John Guppy ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A suggestive hint comes from Trinidad where small fish called guppies vary in color according to the stretch of water they inhabit. ▪ It is not necessary to acclimate the guppies to salt water. ▪ Not surprisingly, male guppies ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1925, named for R.J.L. Guppy , Trinidad clergyman who supplied the first specimen (1866) to the British Museum. The family name is from a place in Dorset. The class of streamlined U.S. submarines (1948) is an acronym from greater underwater propulsion power ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small freshwater fish of South America and the West Indies; often kept in aquariums [syn: rainbow fish , Lebistes reticulatus ]
Usage examples of guppy.
Swordtails, Guppies, Platys, Terras, Neons, Cichlids, Labyrinth and Paradise fish, and every variety of exotic Goldfish.
Her dear students were gaping like guppies, their eves unblinking and their little mouths opening and closing silently.
A small fish tank had been tipped over, its glass broken, two guppies resting stiff on the floor with a little castle and a couple of mounds of some sandy substance.
Guppy, looking at him, snuffers in hand, as he sits down with his elbow on the table.
William Guppy, of Penton Place, Pentonville, in the county of Middlesex, and myself.
Guppy takes him in hand as a witness, patting him into this shape, that shape, and the other shape like a butterman dealing with so much butter, and worrying him according to the best models.
Do you remember that time you gave a Venusian guppy a can of condensed milk in exchange for a pinfire opal not as big as the city clock?
Swordtails, Guppies, Platys, Terras, Neons, Cichlids, Labyrinth and Paradise fish, and every variety of exotic Goldfish.
Guppy by going to the back of the box, I could not bear to do that because I knew Richard and Ada relied on having me next them and that they could never have talked together so happily if anybody else had been in my place.
Her dear students were gaping like guppies, their eves unblinking and their little mouths opening and closing silently.
A small fish tank had been tipped over, its glass broken, two guppies resting stiff on the floor with a little castle and a couple of mounds of some sandy substance.
This was so favourably received by the milkman and beadle that he would immediately have been pushed into the area if I had not held his pinafore while Richard and Mr. Guppy ran down through the kitchen to catch him when he should be released.
At last he was happily got down without any accident, and then he began to beat Mr. Guppy with a hoop-stick in quite a frantic manner.
As is usually the case with people who go over houses, Mr. Guppy and his friend are dead beat before they have well begun.
It appears to the afflicted Mr. Guppy and his inconsolable friend that there is no end to the Dedlocks, whose family greatness seems to consist in their never having done anything to distinguish themselves for seven hundred years.