zebrafish

[zee-bruh-fish, zeb-ruh-]

noun

plural

zebrafishes ,

plural

zebrafish .

1. a small, slender freshwater fish, Brachydanio rerio, having luminous bluish-black and silvery-gold horizontal stripes: popular in home aquariums.

Word History and Origins

Origin of zebrafish¹

First recorded in 1765–75; zebra + fish

Example Sentences

The collaboration started in 2024 after Tornini, who had been studying the effect of noise and heat on neural development in zebrafish, reached out to Joanne Suarez, who founded Prospera to promote health equity in Black, Latino and Indigenous communities.

From Los Angeles Times

Some years after also working on the wood frog in Ottawa, another Storey lab alumna, Rasha Al-Attar, now works at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine & Surgery, where she takes inspiration from nature to develop cryopreservation techniques for experimental model animals like zebrafish, or to preserve organs like human hearts.

From Salon

The study, conducted on zebrafish, is published in Nature Communications.

From Science Daily

The study was conducted on zebrafish, an animal model that exhibits strong similarities to human heart rate and overall cardiac function.

From Science Daily

In zebrafish studies, it was shown to stop the formation of new blood vessels that tumours need in order to grow.

From Science Daily