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  • noun Plural form of platy.

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Examples

  • Other cages held juvenile roos and platys, possums and tiger cats, dingoes and koalas, along with equally disconsolate representatives of outlying tribes such as small felines, rodents, a black bear cub, and an especially wretched sifaka.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

  • The fish were bright with all the colors of the rainbow, from minnows shorter than his little finger, to angelfish, platys, and groupers as big as his leg.

    State Of War Clancy, Tom 2003

  • So was Sushi, the larger of the two platys, whose lifeless body lay across Frank's.

    Make your own license plate shunn 2001

  • The gauzily finned fish had inhabited new quarters for approximately three weeks before his demise, a three-gallon aquarium he shared with Sushi and Sashimi, two small Sunset Fire platys.

    Make your own license plate shunn 2001

  • The gauzily finned fish had inhabited new quarters for approximately three weeks before his demise, a three-gallon aquarium he shared with Sushi and Sashimi, two small Sunset Fire platys.

    Make your own license plate shunn 2001

  • So was Sushi, the larger of the two platys, whose lifeless body lay across Frank's.

    Make your own license plate shunn 2001

  • Finally, there is another Greek word meaning 'wide,' [Greek: platus] (platys); whence at last our 'plate' -- a thing made broad or extended -- but especially made broad or 'flat' out of the solid, as in a lump of clay extended on the wheel, or a lump of metal extended by the hammer.

    Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

  • Mollies are considered brackish fish, and they grow big! why does platys, mollies and swordtails rub there bodies across others & why they sit at the bottom of the tank? en Español

    The Daily News - News 2010

  • Will a clown leach eat baby guppies and baby platys. the babies are 2 days old and another bath is 1 week.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • I'm going to start it off with a few tetras, then my friend has some baby platys that need a good home (as hers wont stop breeding!) and then possibly a siamese fighting fish and perhaps a frog!

    eruANNA 2009

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