flying fish

See also: flyingfish

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Noun

flying fish (plural flying fishes or flying fish)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flying,‎ fish.
2. 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.

Translations

tropical marine fish

Asturian: pexe volador (ast) Catalan: peix volador (ca) m Cebuano: bangsi Chinese: Mandarin: 飛魚 / 飞鱼 (zh) (fēiyú) Danish: flyvefisk c Dutch: vliegende vis (nl) m Faroese: flogfiskur m Finnish: liitokala, lentokala (fi) French: poisson volant (fr), exocet (fr) Galician: peixe voador (gl) m German: fliegender Fisch m Italian: pesce volante m Japanese: トビウオ (tobiuo), 飛び魚 (とびうお, tobiuo) Kabuverdianu: vuador Lü: ᦔᦱᦢᦲᧃ (ṗaaḃiin) Maori: maroro Mokilese: moangoar Navajo: łóóʼ naatʼaʼí Norwegian: Bokmål: flygefisk (no) m, flyvefisk (no) m Nynorsk: flygefisk m Palauan: kok Portuguese: peixe-voador (pt) m Russian: лету́чая ры́ба f (letúčaja rýba) Spanish: pez volador m, pez volante m Swedish: flygfisk (sv) c Tagalog: iliw, isdanlawin Thai: ปลาบิน (th) Vietnamese: cá chuồn Volapük: flitafit (vo) Yami: alibangbang

See also

• flying carp

Anagrams

• fly fishing, fly-fishing, flyfishing