t 1 i 1 l 1 a 1 p 3 i 1 a 1
7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a genus of Cichlidae
originEtymology tree Tswana tlhapider. taxonomic name Tilapialbor. English tilapia Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Tilapia, from Tswana tlhapi (“fish”). The drag race slang usage is a reference to the comment by Gia Gunn on entering Ru Paul's Drag Race (season 6) "Just landed like fresh tilapia".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0