Poecilia
See also: poecilia
Translingual
Etymology
New Latin, from Ancient Greek ποικιλία (poikilía, “being marked with various colours, striped, spotted”), or ποικιλίας (poikilías, “a kind of fish”), both ultimately from ποικίλος (poikílos, “many-coloured, spotted, pied, dappled”).
Proper noun
Poecilia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Poeciliidae – poeciliids, called guppy or molly.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Actinopterygii - superclass; Teleostei - class; Acanthopterygii - superorder; Percomorpha - series; Ovalentaria, Atherinomorpha - clades; Cyprinodontiformes - order; Cyprinodontoidei - suborder; Poeciliidae - family; Poeciliinae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): Poecilia vivipara - type species; for other species see
Poecilia on WikispeciesWikispecies or 
Poecilia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Related terms
- Poecilus (beetle)
Descendants
- English: poeciliid
References
- Poecilia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Poecilia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Poecilia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons