guppy
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guppy /ˈgʌpi/
▶noun (pl. guppies) a small live-bearing freshwater fish, native to tropical America and widely kept in aquaria. [Poecilia reticulata.]
– origin 1920s: named after the Trinidadian clergyman R. J. Lechmere Guppy, who sent the first specimen to the British Museum.
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