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ARCHERFISH (archerfishes)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does archerfish mean? 

ARCHERFISH (noun)
  The noun ARCHERFISH has 1 sense:

1. any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australiaplay

  Familiarity information: ARCHERFISH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ARCHERFISH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

archerfish; Toxotes jaculatrix

Hypernyms ("archerfish" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Holonyms ("archerfish" is a member of...):

genus Toxotes; Toxotes (type genus of the Toxotidae)


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