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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A genus of fishes, typical of the family Toxotidæ; the archer-fishes. See cut under archerfish.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any fish of genus Toxotes, the archerfishes.
  2. n. historical A Greek archer armed with a short Greek bow and a short sword.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) A genus of fishes comprising the archer fishes. See archer fish.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. type genus of the Toxotidae

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek τοξότης (toksοtēs, "bowman, archer"). (Wiktionary)

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  1. fish genus

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  1. jaculator
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  1. archer fish
  1. alfione
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  1. archer-fish
  1. darter
  1. toxotidæ

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