1) Consisting of flaky layers 2) Fish 3) Fish common name 4) Like layered soil 5) Live-bearer 6) Live-bearing fish 7) Platypoecilus maculatus 8) Poeciliid 9) Poeciliid fish 10) Popular aquarium fish 11) Prefix with -pus 12) Small stocky mexican fish 13) Topminnow 14) Tropical aquarium fish 
[fish] Platy is a common name for two related species of freshwater fish in the genus Xiphophorus. Both species are livebearers, similar to other fish of the family Poeciliidae, such as the guppy and molly. Platies are native to the east coast of Central America and southern Mexico. The two species, the southern platyfish and the variatus p...
• (a.) Like a plate; consisting of plates.
(species Xiphophorus maculatus), popular tropical aquarium fish of the live-bearer family, Poeciliidae (order Atheriniformes). The platy is a ...
Small, flat, and flaky.
Plat'y adjective Like a plate; consisting of plates. 
[n] - small stocky Mexican fish
Platypoecilus maculatus noun small stocky Mexican fish; popular aquarium fish