Usually means: Small freshwater fish, mosquito control.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. gambusia: Merriam-Webster
  2. Gambusia, gambusia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gambusia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gambusia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Gambusia: Vocabulary.com
  6. gambusia: Wordnik
  7. gambusia: Wiktionary
  8. gambusia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gambusia: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. gambusia: Dictionary.com
  11. Gambusia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Gambusia: Rhymezone
  13. gambusia: FreeDictionary.org
  14. gambusia: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. gambusia: Mnemonic Dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gambusia: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gambusia)

▸ noun:  Any of several live-bearing freshwater fish, of the genus Gambusia, that feed on the larva of mosquitos and are used to control them.

Similar:
genus gambusia, mosquitofish, top minnow, guppy, mugil, goby, gadger, gadoid, anabas, gobionellid, more...

Phrases:
gambusia affinis, genus gambusia, more...

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Similar:
genus gambusia, mosquitofish, top minnow, guppy, mugil, goby, gadger, gadoid, anabas, gobionellid, more...

Phrases:
gambusia affinis, genus gambusia, more...



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