KILLIFISH (killifishes)

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Irregular inflected form: killifishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does killifish mean? 

• KILLIFISH (noun)
  The noun KILLIFISH has 1 sense:

1. small mostly marine warm-water carp-like schooling fishes; used as bait or aquarium fishes or in mosquito control

  Familiarity information: KILLIFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KILLIFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small mostly marine warm-water carp-like schooling fishes; used as bait or aquarium fishes or in mosquito control

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Nouns denoting animals

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)