: a small bony fish (Poecilia reticulata of the family Poeciliidae) especially of Barbados, Trinidad, and Venezuela that is a live-bearer and is often kept as an aquarium fish
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Examples of guppy in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebThe four guppies — Turbo, Wobbles, Kickflip and Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville — were adopted for my 29th birthday.—John Hodgman, New York Times, 17 May 2024 This behavior occurs across a range of animals, from guppies to gazelles.—Athena Aktipis, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2023 Tupac was a guppy that got swallowed up by some ferocious sharks.—Vulture, 3 Oct. 2023 The hatchlings are currently enjoying a private habitat and eating guppies and minnows, Foster said.—Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023 Each guppy is numbered one through four.—Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2022 In the wild, females of P. reticulata (the Trinidadian guppy) swim in small groups called shoals.—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2011 Now, Hendry and colleagues have updated and expanded the original data set with more than 5,000 additional examples: everything from the cranial depth of the common chaffinch to the lifespan of the Trinidadian guppy.—Amit Katwala, Wired, 4 Feb. 2022 Because of the bay’s world-class beauty as a tourist destination, some who don’t know a halibut from a guppy will often come aboard for the boat ride and a chance to catch a fish.—Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June 2021
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