Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

guppy

guppy , noun

[Named after R. J. L. Guppy, who brought speciments to the British museum. RHUD]

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. — RHUD