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panchax

pan·chax
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [pan-chaks]
    • /ˈpæn tʃæks/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [pan-chaks]
    • /ˈpæn tʃæks/

Definitions of panchax word

  • noun panchax any of a variety of colorful tropical Old World fishes of the genus Aplocheilus and related genera: popular in home aquariums. 1
  • noun panchax any of several brightly coloured tropical Asian cyprinodont fishes of the genus Aplocheilus, such as A. panchax (blue panchax) 0
  • noun panchax any of various brilliantly colored killifishes (genus Aplocheilus) often kept in tropical fish aquariums 0

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Origin of panchax

First appearance:

before 1960
One of the 3% newest English words
1960-65; < New Latin (formerly a genus name); of unexplained orig.

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Parts of speech for Panchax

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

panchax popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 59% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

panchax usage trend in Literature

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