Guppy Definition

gŭpē
guppies
noun
guppies
A brightly colored livebearer (Poecilia reticulata) native to Barbados, Trinidad, and Venezuela.
Webster's New World

By extension, any tiny fish.

Throw that one back; it’s just a guppy!
Wiktionary

(paintball) A tube holding paintballs before they are loaded into the gun.

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Noun

Singular:
guppy
Plural:
guppies

Origin of Guppy

  • From a name mistakenly assigned, Girardinus guppii, after biologist Robert J. L. Guppy, to previously assigned Poecilia reticulata

    From Wiktionary

  • After R.J. Lechmere Guppy (1836–1916), clergyman of Trinidad who first supplied specimens to the British Museum

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Guppy Sentence Examples

  • Dr Guppy was fortunate in reaching North Keeling Island, where a landing is only possible during the calmest weather.

  • Forbes's and Guppy's investigations go to show that, contrary to Darwin's belief, there is no evidence of upheaval or of subsidence in either of the Keeling groups.

  • My study will firstly focus on the role of experience in developing basic life skills in the Trinidadian guppy.

  • Take one male guppy and three or four female Guppies and before too long you will have pregnant female Guppies!

  • There is also no explicit differentiation between beginner and advanced players, so it is not uncommon to head to a table filled with sharks, while you are still a relative guppy in the tank of Mahjong players.

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