Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who jaculates or darts.
- noun In ichthyology, the darter or archer-fish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- rare One who throws or casts.
- (Zoöl.) The archer fish (
Toxotes jaculator ).
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- noun One who
throws orcasts . - noun zoology The
archerfish .
Etymologies
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Latin
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Examples
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Et fuit Deus cum puero, et crevit, habitavitque in deserto, et fuit jaculator sagittarius.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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The _toxotes jaculator_, which lives in the rivers of
The Human Side of Animals Royal Dixon 1923
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This fish, which is remarkable neither in size nor color, seldom being larger than our domestic goldfish, is known to the natives as _ikan sumpit_ (literally "fish with a sumpitan") and to science as _Toxodes jaculator_.
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Tnillit hinc labiis, inftdet inde gents:/gi Et quafcunque agilis partes jaculator oberrat,
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
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