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発音

• enPR: plāʹtē, IPA: /ˈpleɪti/
• 韻: -eɪti

形容詞

platy (comparative platier, superlative platiest)

1. Resembling plates.
2. (heraldry) Semy of plates (roundels argent).

   Alternative form: platé

   • 1877, The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, page 19:

     Gules, a saltire argent within a bordure sable bezantée (sic C., but Papworth cites, p. 1069, from A., per saltire gules and sable, a saltire argent, and a bordure of the 2nd platy).

   • 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 97:

     [...] fretty gules besanty / here the besants are placed at the intersection of the pieces of the fretty. A similar coat, Or, fretty gules platy, is an old coat of VERDON; and Or, fretty sable platy is the canting coat of PLATT.

   • 1965, R. H. Wilmott, Discovering Heraldry:

     Or, a fess dancetty of two points gules masoned argent; on a chief azure a representation of Maidenhead Bridge over water barry wavy in base. 212. Argent, a fess gules between 3 astral crowns azure. 213. Sable platy, a pile barry […]

   • 1983, Charles Boutell, Boutell's Heraldry, Frederick Warne Publishers:

     Sable platy, two flaunches argent - Spelman (159). Gules, five lozenges conjoined in bend argent - Raleigh (160).

3. (geology, mineralogy) Composed of thin plate-like pieces of rock or mineral.

関連する語

• plate
• plated

参考

語源 2

Translingual: Platypoecilus (“former genus of platys”)

発音

• enPR: plătʹē, IPA: /ˈplæti/
• 韻: -æti

名詞

platy (plural platys or platies or platy)

1. Any of two species (and hybrids) of tropical fish of the genus Xiphophorus (which also includes the swordtails).

   I had a mixed community aquarium with several tetras, two mollies, some corydoras catfish, and a platy from a previous tank.

使用する際の注意点

• Many named varieties of platy have been bred.

派生語

• common platy (Xiphophorus maculatus)
• moon platy
• platyfish
• southern platy (Xiphophorus maculatus)
• variatus platy, variegated platy, variable platy (Xiphophorus variatus)

参照

• Xiphophorus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Xiphophorus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Xiphophorus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

アナグラム

• aptly, patly, typal