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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flying, fish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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A tropical marine fish of the family Exocoetidae, having enlarged winglike pectoral fins enabling it to escape predators by taking short gliding flights through the air.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
tropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: teleost fish, teleost, teleostan
Narrower terms: monoplane flying fish, two-wing flying fish, biplane flying fish, four-wing flying fish
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
43 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Asturian:
pexe volador
— tropical marine fish
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Asturian:
volador
— tropical marine fish
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Bulgarian:
летяща риба
(letjašta riba)
— tropical marine fish
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Catalan:
peix volador
— tropical marine fish
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Cebuano:
bangsi
— tropical marine fish
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Chinese Mandarin:
飛魚 /飞鱼
(fēiyú)
— tropical marine fish
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Danish:
flyvefisk
— tropical marine fish
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Dutch:
vliegende vis
— tropical marine fish
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Esperanto:
flugfiŝo
— tropical marine fish
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Faroese:
flogfiskur
— tropical marine fish
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Finnish:
liitokala
— tropical marine fish
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Finnish:
lentokala
— tropical marine fish
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French:
poisson volant
— tropical marine fish
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French:
exocet
— tropical marine fish
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Galician:
peixe voador
— tropical marine fish
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German:
fliegender Fisch
— tropical marine fish
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Italian:
pesce volante
— tropical marine fish
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Japanese:
トビウオ
(tobiuo)
— tropical marine fish
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Japanese:
飛び魚
(tobiuo)
— tropical marine fish
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Kabuverdianu:
vuador
— tropical marine fish
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Korean:
날치
(nalchi)
— tropical marine fish
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Lü:
ᦔᦱᦢᦲᧃ
(ṗaaḃiin)
— tropical marine fish
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Malayalam:
മെഴുമീൻ
(meḻumīṉ)
— tropical marine fish
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Māori:
maroro
— tropical marine fish
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Mokilese:
moangoar
— tropical marine fish
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Navajo:
łóóʼ naatʼaʼí
— tropical marine fish
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Norwegian Bokmål:
flygefisk
— tropical marine fish
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Norwegian Bokmål:
flyvefisk
— tropical marine fish
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
flygefisk
— tropical marine fish
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Palauan:
kok
— tropical marine fish
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Portuguese:
peixe-voador
— tropical marine fish
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Russian:
лету́чая ры́ба
(letúčaja rýba)
— tropical marine fish
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Samoan:
mālolo
— tropical marine fish
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Spanish:
pez volador
— tropical marine fish
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Spanish:
pez volante
— tropical marine fish
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Spanish:
juriola
— tropical marine fish
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Swedish:
flygfisk
— tropical marine fish
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Tagalog:
iliw
— tropical marine fish
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Tagalog:
isdanlawin
— tropical marine fish
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Thai:
ปลาบิน
— tropical marine fish
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Vietnamese:
cá chuồn
— tropical marine fish
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Volapük:
flitafit
— tropical marine fish
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Yami:
alibangbang
— tropical marine fish
