Live-bearer

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  live-bearer \live-bearer\ n.
     Any fish of the family {Poeciliiidae}, small usually
     brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh
     or brackish warm waters, often used in mosquito control.
  
     Syn: topminnow, poeciliid fish, poeciliid.


          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  live-bearer
       n : small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding
           fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters; often used in
           mosquito control [syn: {topminnow}, {poeciliid fish}, {poeciliid}]