killifish
Any of a number of tiny fish in the Cyprinodontiformes order of ray-finned fishAny of a number of tiny fish in the Cyprinodontiformes order of ray-finned fish.
» What should you feed killifish that have just hatched from their eggs?
Чем кормить новорожденных рыбок килли? — shanghainese
fcbond · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesAny of a number of tiny fish in the Cyprinodontiformes order of ray-finned fish.
- small mostly marine warm-water carp-like schooling fishes; used as bait or aquarium fishes or in mosquito control
Examples
1 sentencesWhat should you feed killifish that have just hatched from their eggs?
ruЧем кормить новорожденных рыбок килли? — shanghainese
Origin
From killie (“killifish”, perhaps from kill (“channel, creek”)) or kill, + fish.From killie (“killifish”, perhaps from kill (“channel, creek”)) or kill, + fish.
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Forms
plural: killifishes / killifish| Singular | killifish |
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| Plural | killifishes / killifish |
regular
Word family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.