platy

plate +‎ -y

• enPR: plāʹtē, IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪti/

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platy (comparative platier, superlative platiest)

1. Resembling plates.
2. (heraldry) Of a field semy of plates.
3. (geology, mineralogy) Composed of thin plate-like pieces of rock or mineral.

• plate
• plated

blue platy

red wagtail platy

Translingual: Platypoecilus (“former genus of platys”)

• enPR: plătʹē, IPA^(key): /ˈplæti/

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platy (plural platys or platies or platy)

1. Any of two species (and hybrids) of tropical fish of the genus Xiphophorus (which also includes the swordtails).

   I had a mixed community aquarium with several tetras, two mollies, some corydoras catfish, and a platy from a previous tank.

• Many named varieties of platy have been bred.

• common platy (Xiphophorus maculatus)
• moon platy
• platyfish
• southern platy (Xiphophorus maculatus)
• variatus platy, variegated platy, variable platy (Xiphophorus variatus)

• Xiphophorus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Xiphophorus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Xiphophorus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• aptly, patly, typal

From English platy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɑty/, [ˈplɑt̪y]
• Rhymes: -ɑty
• Syllabification^(key): pla‧ty

platy

1. platy (either of two species Xiphophorus maculatus and X. variatus, and their hybrids)