zebrafish

[zee-bruh-fish; Brit. also zeb-ruh-]

ze·bra·fish

[zee-bruh-fish; Brit. also zeb-ruh-]
noun, plural ze·bra·fish·es, (especially collectively) ze·bra·fish.
a small, slender freshwater fish, Brachydanio rerio, having luminous bluish-black and silvery-gold horizontal stripes: popular in home aquariums.
Also called zebra danio.


Origin:
1765–75; zebra + fish
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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