mosquitofish

Questions about mosquitofish

What does mosquitofish mean?

mosquitofish means "silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control".

How many syllables are in mosquitofish?

mosquitofish has 4 syllables and divides as mo-squi-to-fish under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for mosquitofish?

Close synonyms include Gambusia affinis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mosquitofish a common word?

mosquitofish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.