1. Small stocky Mexican fish; popular aquarium fish
   "She added three colourful platies to her freshwater aquarium";
   - Platypoecilus maculatus

1. Resembling a plate or plates; having a flattened shape
   "The fish had platy scales covering its body"
    
2. (geology) made up of flaky plate-like pieces of igneous rock
   "The platy texture of the schist was evident in the rock outcrop"

Derived forms: platies

Type of: live-bearer, poeciliid, poeciliid fish, topminnow

Part of: genus Platypoecilus, Platypoecilus

Encyclopedia: Platy, Imathia