Associations to the word «Poeciliid»

Wiktionary

POECILIID, noun. (zoology) Any member of the Poeciliidae.

Dictionary definition

POECILIID, noun. Small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters; often used in mosquito control.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope