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Definition of Guppy
1. Noun. Small freshwater fish of South America and the West Indies; often kept in aquariums.
Definition of Guppy
1. Noun. A tiny freshwater fish, ''Poecilia reticulata'', 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. ¹
2. Noun. By extension, any tiny fish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Guppy
1. a small, tropical fish [n -PIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guppy
Literary usage of Guppy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, James William Mylne, Richard Davis Craig, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1837)
"guppy. FEW v. PETRE and guppy. guppy v. FEW. the year 1827, by Charles Few alone,
against Samuel been filed by _ . , __ an assignee of original bill in this ..."
2. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"... guppy, Geol. Soc. London Quart. Jour., vol. 22, p. 292, pl. 17, fig. 3. 1867.
... guppy, Sci. Assoc. Trinidad Proc., pt. 3, p. 156. 1873. ..."
3. Spiritual Magazine (1873)
"guppy. A stance was held on the evening of May llth, at 1, Morland Villas, ...
In conversation Mrs. guppy referred to an experience in which water had been ..."
4. The Physicians and Surgeons of the United States by William Biddle Atkinson (1878)
"In 1858 he married Clara * B. Tarbell, of Vassalboro'; she died in 1866. In 1867
he married Fannie A. guppy, daughter of James H. guppy, Esq., of Boston, ..."
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