zebrafish

[ zee-bruh-fish; British also zeb-ruh- ]

noun

, plural ze·bra·fish·es, (especially collectively) ze·bra·fish.

1. a small, slender freshwater fish, Brachydanio rerio, having luminous bluish-black and silvery-gold horizontal stripes: popular in home aquariums.

Word History and Origins

Origin of zebrafish¹

First recorded in 1765–75; zebra + fish

Example Sentences

Microstripes -- one-dimensional lanes guiding cell movement -- are printed on the substrate beside a zebrafish scale made up of numerous cells.

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Reduced cell division and cancer spread were also observed in experiments conducted on zebrafish.

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Using gene-editing techniques, the researchers selectively removed, or knocked out, a single gene from an entire population of zebrafish embryos to observe how these genetic alterations affected the formation of gut nerves.

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The tool has already been successfully implemented in living cells of organisms such as plants, zebrafish, and mice.

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Scientists led by Marilyn Rampersad Mackiewicz and Stacey L. Harper assessed how spherical and triangular-shaped silver nanoparticles with five different surface chemistries affected their uptake and toxicity in a laboratory microcosm of bacteria, algae, Daphnia and embryonic zebrafish.

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