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Definition: Swordtail |
SwordtailNoun1. Freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: SwordtailSynonyms: helleri (n), topminnow (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The species is named after the elongated lower lobe of the caudal fin (tailfin). This is only found in the male.
Swordtails are easy to keep and well suited to the community tank.
The species originally comes from South America.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Swordtail."
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black swordtail | 3 |
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Words beginning with "swordtail": swordtails. (additional references) | |
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| Words within the letters "a-d-i-l-o-r-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: dilators. | |
-2 letters: dilator, oralist, rialtos, tailors, towards. | |
-3 letters: adroit, aorist, aristo, aroids, aswirl, distal, dorsal, drails, drawls, droits, lairds, liards, lidars, radios, ratios, rialto, sailor, satori, stolid, tailor, tolars, toward, trails, trawls, triads, trials, triols, twirls, woalds, worlds. | |
-4 letters: adios, adits, airts, alist, altos, arils, aroid, astir, awols, darts, datos, dawts, dials, diols, dirls. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-l-o-r-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: swordtails. | |
+3 letters: towardliness. | |
+5 letters: towardlinesses. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01110111 01101111 01110010 01100100 01110100 01100001 01101001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S w o r d t a i l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0077 006F 0072 0064 0074 0061 0069 006C |
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