| 词汇 | guppy |
| 释义 | guppy noun[ C ] uk /ˈɡʌp.i/ us /ˈɡʌp.i/ a small brightly coloured tropical fish: The stream was absolutely full of guppies. Male guppies attract females by swimming next to them and showing off the bright orange markings on their sides. Guppies are extremely easy to breed because a female can give birth a number of times from a single mating. His mouth flaps like that of a guppy. Female guppies, which do not have a mating season, are constantly stalked by males. Guppies were introduced to the swamp and soon ate large numbers of mosquito larvae, reducing the adult population. Freshwater fish American shad barramundi blackfish bluefish bottom feeder coho dorado eel electric eel elver panfish perch pink salmon piranha rockfish salmon tilapia trout walleye whitefish Examples of guppyguppy The guppy was then examined daily. Not having heard the term before or knowing what it meant, she thinks he might have said guppies. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The female guppy has drops of between 2 and 200 fry at a time, typically ranging between 30 and 60. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Male and female guppies from high-predation regions mature faster and start reproducing earlier, and they devote more resources to reproduction than those from low-predation regions. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The rate and duration of courtship display of male guppies also play an important role in female guppies' mating choice. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Schooling is more favored by evolution in populations of guppies under high predation pressure, exerted either by predator type or predator density. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Female guppies' reproductive success is also related to age. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In a study comparing students to guppies, both the fish and students performed the numerical task almost identically. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. However, the goodeid method of mating is somewhat different from more common livebearers, such as guppies and swordtails. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The guppies that were exposed to this chemical were more likely to be eaten due to their slower responses. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They take live prey up to the size of week-old guppy fry, but need plant material, ideally green algae, to thrive. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This is the same family that includes familiar aquarium fishes such as guppies and mollies. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Examples include mollies, guppies, swordtails, platies, bumblebee goby, and glass fish. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In this study, untrained adult female guppies swam with trained conspecifics to feed and in the process learned the location of a food source. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It has also been shown experimentally to infect other fish species including northern pike, guppies, zebrafish, and pumpkinseed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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