platy

adj

1. Resembling plates.
2. Semy of plates (roundels argent).

   “Alternative form: platé”

   “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 2nd platy).”

   “[...] fretty gules besanty / here the besants are placed at the intersection of the pieces of the fretty. A similar coat, Or, fretty gules platy, is an old coat of VERDON; and Or, fretty sable platy is the canting coat of PLATT.”

   “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. Sable platy, a pile barry[…]”

   “Sable platy, two flaunches argent - Spelman (159). Gules, five lozenges conjoined in bend argent - Raleigh (160).”

3. Composed of thin plate-like pieces of rock or mineral.

noun

1. Any of two species (and hybrids) of tropical fish of the genus Xiphophorus (which also includes the swordtails).

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

name

1. A town in Central Macedonia, Greece.
2. A small village on Lemnos, Greece.