TOXOTES JACULATRIX

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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 Australia

Synonyms:

archerfish; Toxotes jaculatrix

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Toxotes jaculatrix" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Toxotes jaculatrix" is a member of...):

genus Toxotes; Toxotes (type genus of the Toxotidae)

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