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noun
Any of various edible fish, formerly species of the genus Tilapia, but now placed in other cichlid genera (such as Oreochromis), native to Africa and the Middle East but cultivated worldwide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: St. Peter's fish
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A fishy (resembling a cisgender woman) drag queen; a drag queen who could pass for a woman, as opposed to one who is exaggeratedly feminine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: drag slang
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a genus of Cichlidae
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: genus Tilapia
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fish genus
History
Etymology tree Tswana tlhapider. taxonomic name Tilapialbor. English tilapia Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Tilapia, from Tswana tlhapi (“fish”). The drag race slang usage is a reference to the comment by Gia Gunn on entering Ru Paul's Drag Race (season 6) "Just landed like fresh tilapia".
Across languages
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
