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KILLIFISH
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Irregular inflected form: killifishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small mostly marine warm-water carp-like schooling fishes; used as bait or aquarium fishes or in mosquito control
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("killifish" is a kind of...):
cyprinodont (any member of the family Cyprinodontidae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "killifish"):
Fundulus heteroclitus; mummichog (silver-and-black killifish of saltwater marshes along the Atlantic coast of the United States)
Fundulus majalis; may fish; mayfish; striped killifish (black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States)
rivulus (found in small streams of tropical America; often kept in aquariums; usually hermaphroditic)
American flagfish; flagfish; Jordanella floridae (a fish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes; found in swamps and streams of Florida)
