Fromplate +‎-y.

• enPR:plāʹtē,IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪti/

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platy (comparativeplatier,superlativeplatiest)

1. Resemblingplates.
2. (heraldry)Semy ofplates (roundels argent).

   Alternative form:platé

   • 1877,The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, page19:

     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 2ndplaty).

   • 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett,A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page97:

     [...]fretty gules besanty / here the besants are placed at the intersection of the pieces of the fretty. A similar coat,Or, fretty gulesplaty, is an old coat of VERDON; andOr, fretty sableplaty 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. Sableplaty, a pile barry […]

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

     Sableplaty, 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.

• plate
• plated

	metals		main colours				less common colours
tincture	or	argent	gules	azure	sable	vert	purpure	tenné	orange	sanguine
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roundel (in parentheses:semé):	bezant (bezanty)	plate (platy)	torteau (tortelly)	hurt (hurty)	pellet (pellety),ogress	pomme	golpe (golpy)	orange (semé of oranges)		guze (semé of guzes)
goutte(noun) /gutty(adj) thereof:	(goutte /gutty)d'or (ofgold)	d'eau (ofwater)	de sang (ofblood)	de larmes (oftears)	de poix (ofpitch)	d'huile /d'olive(olive oil)
	special roundel	furs								additional, uncommon tinctures:
tincture	fountain,syke: barry wavy argent and azure	ermine	ermines,counter-ermine	erminois	pean	vair	counter-vair	potent	counter-potent	bleu celeste,brunâtre,carnation,cendrée (iron,steel,acier),copper,murrey
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Translingual:Platypoecilus(“former genus of platys”)

• enPR:plătʹē,IPA^(key): /ˈplæti/

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platy (pluralplatysorplatiesorplaty)

1. Any of two species (andhybrids) oftropical fish of the genusXiphophorus (which also includes theswordtails).

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

• Many named varieties of platy have been bred.

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

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

• aptly,patly,typal

FromEnglishplaty.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɑty/,[ˈplɑ̝t̪y]
• Rhymes:-ɑty
• Hyphenation^(key):pla‧ty

platy

1. platy(either of two speciesXiphophorus maculatus andX. variatus, and their hybrids)

• “platy”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-03

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