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pupfish

pupfish noun: any of a group of small killifish belonging to ten genera of the family Cyprinodontidae.

Noun

pupfish (plural pupfishes or pupfish)

  1. Any of a group of small killifish belonging to ten genera of the family Cyprinodontidae.

pupfish meaning in Tamil

pupfish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Forms of pupfish

pluralpupfishes
pluralpupfish

Origin of pupfish

From pup + fish, said to derive from the mating habits of the males, whose activities vaguely resemble puppies at play.

Words formed from pupfish

Phrases with pupfish

Questions about pupfish

What does pupfish mean?
Pupfish means any of a group of small killifish belonging to ten genera of the family Cyprinodontidae.
What is pupfish in Tamil?
Pupfish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Pupfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pupfish?
Pupfish is a noun.
What is the plural of pupfish?
The plural of pupfish is pupfishes.

Words near pupfish in the dictionary

  1. pupe
  2. Pupei
  3. Pupel
  4. pupelo
  5. pupes
  6. pupfish
  7. pupfishes
  8. pupgender
  9. pupgenders
  10. pupicidal
  11. pupies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pupfish (page history and authors); pupfish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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