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LIVE-BEARER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does live-bearer mean?

• LIVE-BEARER (noun)
The noun LIVE-BEARER has 1 sense:

1. small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters; often used in mosquito control

Familiarity information: LIVE-BEARER used as a noun is very rare.

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• LIVE-BEARER (noun)

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Meaning:

Small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters; often used in mosquito control

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

live-bearer; poeciliid; poeciliid fish; topminnow

Hypernyms ("live-bearer" is a kind of...):

cypriniform fish (a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "live-bearer"):

Gambusia affinis; mosquitofish (silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control)

platy; Platypoecilus maculatus (small stocky Mexican fish; popular aquarium fish)

mollie; molly (popular aquarium fish)

Holonyms ("live-bearer" is a member of...):

family Poeciliidae; Poeciliidae (topminnows)

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