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FLYING FISH

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("flying fish" is a kind of...):

teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flying fish"):

monoplane flying fish; two-wing flying fish (having only pectoral fins enlarged)

biplane flying fish; four-wing flying fish (having both pectoral and pelvic fins enlarged)

Holonyms ("flying fish" is a member of...):

Exocoetidae; family Exocoetidae (flying fishes; closely related to the halfbeaks)

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