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Look up: archerfish

  1. archerfish
    [n] - any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water
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  2. archerfish
    Toxotes jaculatrix noun any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  3. Archerfish
    USS Archerfish was an American Balao Class submarine of 1525 tons displacement launched in 1943 which saw action during the Second World War. USS Archerfish was powered by diesel engines providing a top speed of 21 knots and was armed with one 4-inch gun, two 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns; six 2...
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  4. archerfish
    archerfish, laterally compressed fish, genus Toxotes, which catches insects by spitting at and disabling them. The archerfish has a groove in the roof of its mouth that forms a long narrow tube when the tongue is placed against it; the fish propels drops of water along the tube by compressing its gi...
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  5. Archerfish
    The archerfish is a surface-living fish of the family Toxotidae, such as the genus Toxotes, native to South-East Asia and Australia. The archerfish grows to about 25 centimetres and is able to shoot down insects up to 1.5 metres above the water by spitting a jet of water from its mouth. The soft, an...
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  6. Archerfish
    The `archerfish` (`Spinner Fish` or `Archer Fish`) are a family (`Toxotidae`) of fish known for their habit of preying on land based insects and other small animals by literally shooting them down with water droplets from their specialized mouths. The family is small, consisting of seven species in ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archerfish

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