rainbow fish

noun

1. guppy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rainbow fish¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Example Sentences

Looking down beneath the clear blue waters Dolores descries the rainbow fish and claps her hands at its beauty.

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Wherever there was shadow this pale glimmer painted it with ethereal colours, like the backs of rainbow fish moving under water.

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That exquisite hue and transparency of submarine day, and these shoals of rainbow fish have not enraptured me again.

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That exquisite hue and transparency of submarine day, and these shoals of rainbow fish, have not enraptured me again.

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