flying gurnard

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes of the family Dactylopteridae, having greatly enlarged, winglike pectoral fins that facilitate gliding through the water.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A flying-fish of the family Cephalacanthidæ or Dactylopteridæ. Also called flying-robin. See flying-fish , and cut under Dactylopterus.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Any tropical marine fish of the family of Dactylopteridae having immense wing-like pectoral fins used to glide through the water

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins