Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes of the family Dactylopteridae, having greatly enlarged, winglike pectoral fins that facilitate gliding through the water.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A flying-fish of the family Cephalacanthidæ or Dactylopteridæ. Also called flying-robin. See flying-fish , and cut under Dactylopterus.
Wiktionary
- n. Any tropical marine fish of the family of Dactylopteridae having immense wing-like pectoral fins used to glide through the water
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. a species of gurnard of the genus Cephalacanthus or Dactylopterus, with very large pectoral fins, said to be able to fly like the flying fish, but not for so great a distance.
WordNet 3.0
- n. tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins
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Bird Fish
List of fishes whose names contain the name of a bird, such as parrotfish, sea robin, or snipe eel.
parrotfish, sea robin, snipe eel, hawkfish, duckbill, duckbilled buntingi, cardinalfish, armored searobin, goosefish, canary rockfish, cuckoo wrasse, eagle ray and 58 more...
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