rainbow fish

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   small freshwater fish of South America and the West Indies; often kept in aquariums

   SynonymsguppyLebistes reticulatus

   Broadercyprinodont

Questions about rainbow fish

What does rainbow fish mean?

rainbow fish means "small freshwater fish of South America and the West Indies; often kept in aquariums".

What is another word for rainbow fish?

Close synonyms include guppy, Lebistes reticulatus. 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 rainbow fish a common word?

rainbow 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.