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A guppy is a tiny freshwater fish, often kept in a home tank. The males are the bright ones — spots, stripes, a big fan of tail — and the females are plainer and a little larger. They are easy to keep and they have babies very readily, so they are a common first fish for children. People sometimes stretch guppy for any small, colourful tank fish, but strictly it is this one kind. The English name comes from a person, Robert Guppy; another scientist named the fish after him, though the fish already had a scientific name. The everyday English word stuck anyway.
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組成Named after the biologist Robert J. L. Guppy. The scientific name Girardinus guppii was given by mistake — the fish was already Poecilia reticulata — but the common English name remained.
原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Guppyname
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A surname.
guppynoun/ˈɡʌpi/
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A tiny freshwater fish, Poecilia reticulata, popular in home aquariums, that usually has a plain body and black or dark blue tail for the females and a more colorful tail for the males. The guppies can vary in size, but males are 4 cm (1.6”) and females are 7 cm (2.8”).
- Fred kept a tank of guppies by the windowsill.
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Any tiny fish.
- Throw that one back; it’s just a guppy!
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gamespaintballA tube holding paintballs before they are loaded into the gun.
- I reached into my pack and grabbed a guppy to reload. Pouring in the contents, I kept my eyes ahead as I was supposed to do.
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climbinghobbieslifestyleA hold across the palm of the hand rather than the fingertips.
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Acanthocephalus guppii
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Acanthocephalus reticulatus
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Girardinus guppii
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Girardinus petersi
另外 8 個記錄的用法
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Girardinus poeciloides
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Girardinus reticulatus
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Haridichthys reticulatus
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Heterandria guppyi
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Lebistes poecilioides
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Lebistes reticulatus
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Poecilia poeciloides
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Poecilioides reticulatus
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。