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Archerfish

noun
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 Australia.  Synonym: Toxotes jaculatrix.






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"Archerfish" Quotes from Famous Books



... nurseryfish on which nature has lavished yellow, azure, silver, and gold; yellow mackerel with wings made of filaments; bullheads forever spattered with mud, which make distinct hissing sounds; sea robins whose livers are thought to be poisonous; ladyfish that can flutter their eyelids; finally, archerfish with long, tubular snouts, real oceangoing flycatchers, armed with a rifle unforeseen by either Remington or Chassepot: it slays insects by shooting them with a ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne



Words linked to "Archerfish" :   Toxotes, percoid fish, Toxotes jaculatrix, percoidean, genus Toxotes, percoid



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