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GloFish

name

Etymology

From glow + fish

  1. inherited from *peysk-✻ — “fish”
  2. inherited from *fiskaz✻ — “fish”
  3. inherited from *fisk✻
  4. inherited from fisċ — “fish”
  5. inherited from fisch
  6. compounded as glofish — “glow + fish”

Definitions

  1. A trademarked and patented brand of fluorescently colored genetically modified aquarium…

    A trademarked and patented brand of fluorescently colored genetically modified aquarium fish.

  2. Any genetically modified fluorescently colored fish made by this brand.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA