Fish vs. Guppy — What's the Difference?

Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups.

The guppy (Poecilia reticulata), also known as millionfish and rainbow fish, is one of the world's most widely distributed tropical fish and one of the most popular freshwater aquarium fish species. It is a member of the family Poeciliidae and, like almost all American members of the family, is live-bearing.

A limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins living wholly in water

A small live-bearing freshwater fish (Poecilia reticulata), native to northern South America and adjacent islands of the West Indies, bred in many colorful varieties and popular in home aquariums.

A person who is strange in a specified way

A tiny freshwater fish, Poecilia reticulata, popular in home aquariums, that usually has a plain body and black or dark blue tail for the females and a more colorful tail for the males.

A flat plate that is fixed on a beam or across a joint in order to give additional strength.

(by extension) Any tiny fish.

Catch or try to catch fish, typically by using a net or hook and line

(paintball) A tube holding paintballs before they are loaded into the gun.

Search by groping or feeling for something concealed

(climbing) A hold across the palm of the hand rather than the fingertips.

Mend or strengthen with a fish.

A small freshwater fish of South America and West Indies (Lebistes reticulatus or Poecilia reticulata, originaly called Gerardinus guppyi), often kept in aquariums; also called rainbow fish.

Join (rails in a railway track) with a fishplate.

Small freshwater fish of South America and the West Indies; often kept in aquariums

Any of numerous cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates characteristically having fins, gills, and a streamlined body and including the bony fishes, such as catfishes and tunas, and the cartilaginous fishes, such as sharks and rays.

Any of various jawless aquatic craniates, including the lampreys and hagfishes.

The flesh of such animals used as food.

(Informal) A person, especially one considered deficient in something

To catch or try to catch fish.

To look for something by feeling one's way; grope

To seek something in a sly or indirect way

To catch or try to catch (fish).

To catch or try to catch fish in

To catch or pull as if fishing

(countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.

(Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.

(uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.

(uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.

A woman.

An easy victim for swindling.

A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).

A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.

(nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.

A torpedo self-propelled explosive device.

(zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:

Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebrae)

Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)

Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda))

(cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.

(prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.

A male homosexual; a gay man.

A period of time spent fishing.

An instance of seeking something.

(obsolete) A counter, used in various games.

(intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.

(transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.

To use as bait when fishing.

(intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.

To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.

Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.

To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).

To hoist the flukes of.

A counter, used in various games.

A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.

An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.

The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.

The flesh of fish, used as food.

A purchase used to fish the anchor.

To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.

To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.

To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.

To search by raking or sweeping.

To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.

Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills;

The flesh of fish used as food;

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces

The twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20

Seek indirectly;

Catch or try to catch fish or shellfish;