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   guppy

   /ˈɡʌpi/

   noun

   • 1. a small live-bearing freshwater fish widely kept in aquaria. Native to tropical America, it has been introduced elsewhere to control mosquito larvae.

   Word Origin 1920s: named after R. J. Lechmere Guppy (1836–1916), a Trinidadian who sent the first specimen to the British Museum.

   Scrabble Points: 13

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