Platy Definition

plātē
platies, platy, platys
adjective
Designating soil or minerals occurring in flaky layers.
American Heritage
Composed of plates, sheets, or slabs, as certain sandstones or limestones.
Webster's New World

Resembling plates.

Wiktionary

(heraldry) Of a field semy of plates.

Wiktionary
noun
platies, platys
Any of various brightly colored livebearers (genus Xiphophorus) native to Central America.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • Platypoecilus maculatus
prefix
Flat.
Platyhelminth.
American Heritage

Forms words referring to things that are relatively flat but wide.

Wiktionary
affix
Broad or flat.
Platyhelminth.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Platy

Noun

Singular:
platy
Plural:
platies, platys

Origin of Platy

  • Short for New Latin Platypoecilus former genus name platy– Greek poikilos many-colored poikilotherm

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Greek platu- from platus plat- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek πλατύς (platus, “flat")

    From Wiktionary

  • plate + -y

    From Wiktionary

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