zebra fish

noun

: any of various barred fishes
especially : a very small blue-and-silver-striped Indian danio (Danio rerio synonym Brachydanio rerio) often kept in the tropical aquarium

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For instance, current state-of-the-art neurological recording of zebra fish involves some 80 000 neurons, and that requires subjecting the creatures to techniques that would never be used on humans. IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2013 At the time, Jin was finishing his doctorate at the National University of Singapore, studying immune cell development in zebra fish and pondering a shift to a more challenging system for the next phase of his career. Esther Landhuis, Quanta Magazine, 14 June 2024 Those upstream circuits are better understood in other organisms, like zebra fish. Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024 Mosca notes the same strategies used in this study will likely help illuminate brain-behavior links in other model animals such as zebra fish or fruit flies. Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2023 See All Example Sentences for zebra fish

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First Known Use

1771, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of zebra fish was in 1771

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“Zebra fish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zebra%20fish. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.

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