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archerfish

noun

Etymology

From archer + fish.

  1. inherited from *peysk-✻ — “fish”
  2. inherited from *fiskaz✻ — “fish”
  3. inherited from *fisk✻
  4. inherited from fisċ — “fish”
  5. inherited from fisch
  6. compounded as archerfish — “archer + fish”

Definitions

  1. Any of the species of fish in the family Toxotidae (usually with sole genus Toxotes), who…

    Any of the species of fish in the family Toxotidae (usually with sole genus Toxotes), who prey on small animals near to the surface of a water by shooting them with water from their mouths.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for archerfish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA