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Killifish

Definition: Killifish

Killifish

Noun

1. Small mostly marine warm-water carp-like schooling fishes; used as bait or aquarium fishes or in mosquito control.

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Specialty Definitions: Killifish

DomainDefinitions

Health

Small oviparous fishes usually striped or barred black. They are much used in mosquito control. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Killifish

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Killifish are small fish belonging to several families in the order Cyprinodontiformes. The name is restricted to egg-bearing forms. An example is the Mummichog.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Killifish."

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Crosswords: Killifish

English words defined with "killifish": Fundulus, Fundulus heteroclitusgenus Fundulus, genus Rivulusmummichogstriped killifish. (references)
Specialty definitions using "killifish": Cyprinodontiformes. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Killifish

"Killifish" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Killifish" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)80%4175,879
Noun (singular)20%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5N/A

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Expression: Killifish

Expression using "killifish": striped killifish. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Killifish

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

killifish

62

american killifish association

3

killifish for sale

3

killifish lyretail

3

killifish striped

2

breeding killifish

2

banded killifish

2
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Modern Translations: Killifish

Language Translations for "killifish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

kleinste waaiervis (annual killifish, minute pearlfish), opaal waaiervis (annual killifish, opalescent pearlfish), gemarmerde waaiervis (annual killifish, ginger pearlfish), Constance waaiervis (annual killifish, pearlfish), achtwaaiervis (annual killifish, splendid pearlfish). (various references)

   

French

  

cynolebias opalescent (annual killifish), cynolebias nain (annual killifish), cynolebias marbré (annual killifish), cynolebias de Constance (annual killifish), cynolebias brillant (annual killifish). (various references)

   

German

  

Faecherkaerpfling (annual killifish, ginger pearlfish, minute pearlfish, opalescent pearlfish, pearlfish, splendid pearlfish). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κυπρινόδους της Κωνσταντίας (annual killifish, pearlfish), κυπρινόδους ο νάνος (annual killifish, minute pearlfish), κυπρινόδους ο μαρμαίρων (annual killifish, ginger pearlfish), κυπρινόδους ο λαμπρός (annual killifish, splendid pearlfish), κυπρινόδους ο οπαλιόχρωμος (annual killifish, opalescent pearlfish). (various references)

   

Italian

  

orizia (red killifish), cynolebias splendens (annual killifish, splendid pearlfish). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

目高 (medaka ricefish). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

め か (medaka ricefish). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

illifishkay

   

Portuguese

  

peixe pérola opalino (annual killifish, opalescent pearlfish), peixe pérola marmoreado (annual killifish, ginger pearlfish), peixe pérola de Constança (annual killifish, pearlfish), peixe pérola brilhante (annual killifish, splendid pearlfish), peixe pérola anão (annual killifish, minute pearlfish). (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: Killifish

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Cynolebias constanciae, Cynolebias marmoratus, Cynolebias minimus, Cynolebias opalescens, Cynolebias splendens, Oryzias latipes. (various references)

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Derivations: Killifish

Derivations

Words beginning with "killifish": killifishes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Killifish"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "killifish" (pronounced ki"lufish)
3-f i shblowfish, crayfish, raffish.

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Anagrams: Killifish

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-h-i-i-i-k-l-l-s"

-4 letters: fills, hills, kills, shill, skill.

-5 letters: fill, fils, fish, hili, hill, ilks, ills, khis, kifs, kill, silk, sill.

 Words containing the letters "f-h-i-i-i-k-l-l-s"
 

+2 letters: killifishes.

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Alternative Orthography: Killifish


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4B 69 6C 6C 69 66 69 73 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001011 01101001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01100110 01101001 01110011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0069 006C 006C 0069 0066 0069 0073 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

457578787572758574

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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