FLYING FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flying fish mean? 

• FLYING FISH (noun)
  The noun FLYING FISH has 1 sense:

1. tropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight

  Familiarity information: FLYING FISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLYING FISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("flying fish" is a kind of...):

teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flying fish"):

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)

Holonyms ("flying fish" is a member of...):

Exocoetidae; family Exocoetidae (flying fishes; closely related to the halfbeaks)

 Context examples 

They were never quiet, ceaselessly playing deck-quoits, tossing rings, promenading, or rushing to the rail with loud cries to watch the leaping porpoises and the first schools of flying fish.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)