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swordtail (plural swordtails)
- One of many species of freshwater fish, in genus Xiphophorus, others of which are called platyfish.
1998 August 21, Gretchen Vogel, “EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:Doubled Genes May Explain Fish Diversity”, in Science[1], volume 281, number 5380, →DOI, pages 1119–1121:
But ongoing efforts to sequence genes from other fishes, including salmon and swordtail, will also help to test the theory, Postlethwait says.
- Any of various papilionid butterflies that have a long sword-like projection from the tornal section of each hindwing.
freshwater fish
- Bulgarian: хелер m (heler)
- Danish: sværddrager c
- Finnish: miekkapyrstö
- French: xiphophore (fr) m
- Greek: ξιφοφόρος (el) m (xifofóros)
- Russian: мечено́сец (ru) m (mečenósec)