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    ARCHERFISH

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    Irregular inflected form: archerfishes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

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    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 Australiaplay

    Synonyms:

    archerfish; Toxotes jaculatrix

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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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