poeciliid fish

Questions about poeciliid fish

What does poeciliid fish mean?

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

What is another word for poeciliid fish?

Close synonyms include topminnow, poeciliid, live-bearer. 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 poeciliid fish a common word?

poeciliid fish 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.