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flying fish n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any marine teleost fish of the family Exocoetidae, common in warm and tropical seas, having enlarged winglike pectoral fins used for gliding above the surface of the water ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| Every now and then a shoal of flying fish, scared from the water under the bows, would leap into the air, and fall the next moment like a shower of silver into the sea. Flying fish skimmed the water like thick spray; petrels were so few that I could count them; another shark swam round me for an hour. We scattered like flying fish before the bonita, and there were so many of us that we escaped by thousands, this way and that, to the islands on the rim of the atoll. |
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