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Definition of Platy
1. Noun. Small stocky Mexican fish; popular aquarium fish.
Generic synonyms: Live-bearer, Poeciliid, Poeciliid Fish, Topminnow
Group relationships: Genus Platypoecilus, Platypoecilus
Definition of Platy
1. a. Like a plate; consisting of plates.
Definition of Platy
1. Adjective. Resembling plates. ¹
2. Adjective. (heraldry) Of a field semy of plates. ¹
3. Adjective. (geology) Composed of thin plate-like pieces of igneous rock. ¹
4. Noun. A tropical fish of the genus ''Xiphophorus'' (also including the swordtails.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Platy
1. split into thin, flat pieces [adj PLATIER, PLATIEST] / a small tropical fish [n PLATYS or PLATIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Platy
Literary usage of Platy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1840)
"platy'STERA, a name given by Sir W. Jardine and Mr. Selby to a genus of flycatching
birds, arranged by Mr. ..."
2. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1889)
"That the platy- ceras attached to the body of a crinoid fed upon excrementitious
matter. One of the new facts, and one of great interest, developed by the ..."
3. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1909)
"The resulting structures are of three kinds: SPHEROIDAL, PRISMATIC or COLUMNAR,
and TABULAR or platy; accord- ing as the contraction and resistance are ..."
4. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"... platy, and o^duX^oi, ' eye.') One who has broad eyes. Antimony was of old called
... platy*m'atit, (-Air HO/KI, ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1840)
"platy'STERA, a name given by Sir W. Jardine and Mr. Selby to a genus of flycatching
birds, arranged by Mr. ..."
6. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1889)
"That the platy- ceras attached to the body of a crinoid fed upon excrementitious
matter. One of the new facts, and one of great interest, developed by the ..."
7. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1909)
"The resulting structures are of three kinds: SPHEROIDAL, PRISMATIC or COLUMNAR,
and TABULAR or platy; accord- ing as the contraction and resistance are ..."
8. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"... platy, and o^duX^oi, ' eye.') One who has broad eyes. Antimony was of old called
... platy*m'atit, (-Air HO/KI, ..."
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