"archerfish" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: archerfishes [plural], archerfish [plural]
Etymology: archer + fish Etymology templates: {{compound|en|archer|fish}} archer + fish Head templates: {{en-noun|+|archerfish}} archerfish (plural archerfishes or archerfish)
  1. Any of the species of fish in the family Toxotidae (usually with sole genus Toxotes), who prey on small animals near to the surface of a water by shooting them with water from their mouths. Categories (lifeform): Percoid fish Translations (fish in the family Toxotidae): schuttersvis [masculine] (Dutch), poisson archer [masculine] (French), Schützenfisch [masculine] (German), 鉄砲魚 (teppōuo) (alt: テッポウウオ) (Japanese), peixe-arqueiro [masculine] (Portuguese), cá mang rổ (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-archerfish-en-noun-CuKw-ChH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, Japanese terms with redundant script codes Derived forms: banded archerfish (taxonomic: Toxotes jaculatrix), big scale archerfish (taxonomic: Toxotes oligolepis), brackish archerfish (taxonomic: Toxotes jaculatrix), clouded archerfish (taxonomic: Toxotes blythii), common archerfish (taxonomic: Toxotes chatareus), Kimberly archerfish (taxonomic: Toxotes kimberleyensis), largescale archerfish (taxonomic: Toxotes chatareus), primitive archerfish (alt: Toxotes lorentzi or Protoxotes lorentzi), silver archerfish (taxonomic: Toxotes jaculatrix), smallscale archerfish (taxonomic: Toxotes microlepis), western archerfish (taxonomic: Toxotes kimberleyensis), zebra archerfish (taxonomic: Toxotes blythii)

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