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Noun: platy  pley-tee
  1. Small stocky Mexican fish; popular aquarium fish
    - Platypoecilus maculatus
Adjective: platy  pley-tee
  1. Resembling a plate or plates
     
  2. (geology) made up of flaky plate-like pieces of igneous rock

Derived forms: platies

Type of: live-bearer, poeciliid, poeciliid fish, topminnow

Part of: genus Platypoecilus, Platypoecilus

Encyclopedia: Platy, Imathia