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guppy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
guppy \guppy\ n. [Named after R. J. L. Guppy, who brought
speciments to the British museum.
--RHUD]
A small freshwater fish of South America and West Indies
( Lebistes reticulatus or Poecilia reticulata, originaly
called Gerardinus guppyi), often kept in aquariums; also
called rainbow fish.
Syn: rainbow fish, Lebistes reticulatus.
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 + -y.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A tiny freshwater fish, (taxlink Poecilia reticulata species noshow=1), popular in home aquariums, that usually has a plain body and black or dark blue tail for the females and a more colorful tail for the males. 2 By extension, any tiny fish. 3 (context paintball English) A tube holding paintballs before they are loaded into the gun.
WordNet
n. small freshwater fish of South America and the West Indies; often kept in aquariums [syn: rainbow fish, Lebistes reticulatus]
Wikipedia
A guppy is a popular aquarium fish.
Guppy or GUPPY may also refer to:
- Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program (GUPPY) a U.S. submarine propulsion program
- GUPPY (Genetic Understanding Perspective Preview sYstem), a computer program for visualizing information of sequence databases in molecular biology
- Nuffield Guppy, a small military vehicle of the 1940s intended to be used by paratroopers
- Guppy, (holding) a type of handhold in climbing and bouldering
- Guppy (film), an upcoming Indian film
The guppy , also known as millionfish and rainbow fish, is one of the world's most widely distributed tropical fish, and one of the most popular freshwater aquarium fish species. It is a member of the Poeciliidae family and, like almost all American members of the family, is live-bearing. Guppies, whose natural range is in northeast South America, were introduced to many habitats and are now found all over the world. They are highly adaptable and thrive in many different environmental and ecological conditions. Male guppies, which are smaller than females, have ornamental caudal and dorsal fins, while females are duller in colour. Wild guppies generally feed on a variety of food sources, including benthic algae and aquatic insect larvae. Guppies are used as a model organism in the field of ecology, evolution, and behavioural studies.
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 (1874–1937), fisherman, farmer and political figure in Newfoundland
- Robert John Lechmere Guppy (1836–1916), British naturalist; discoverer and namesake of the fish
- Sarah Guppy (1770–1852), British inventor
- Shusha Guppy (1935–2008), author, editor, singer and filmmaker
- Steve Guppy (born 1969), English retired footballer
Guppy is a Malayalam drama written & directed by Johnpaul George. Tovino Thomas will plays the lead role in the movie along with Sreenivasan. The movie is produced under the banner of E4 Entertainment and AVA Productions.
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.