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flying fish

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flying fish
n.
Any of various marine fishes of the family Exocoetidae, having enlarged, winglike pectoral fins capable of sustaining them in brief, gliding flight over the water.

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
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Noun1.flying fishflying fish - tropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight
teleost, teleost fish, teleostan - a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei
Exocoetidae, family Exocoetidae - flying fishes; closely related to the halfbeaks
monoplane flying fish, two-wing flying fish - having only pectoral fins enlarged
biplane flying fish, four-wing flying fish - having both pectoral and pelvic fins enlarged
Translations
flying fish npesce m volante
flying fish npesce m volante


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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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