Etymology

poeciliid

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Today it means: Any fish in the family Poeciliidae. Full definition →

translingual Poecilia
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  1. translingual · derived fromPoeciliidae
  2. translingual · derived fromPoecilia
  3. English todaypoeciliid

From translingual Poecilia, from ποικίλος (poikílos, “many-colored, variegated”) + -id, after translingual Poeciliidae.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.