MUDSKIPPER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins

Synonyms:

mudskipper; mudspringer

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mudskipper" is a kind of...):

goby; gudgeon (small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker)

Holonyms ("mudskipper" is a member of...):

genus Periophthalmus; Periophthalmus (a genus of Gobiidae)

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