Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several fishes of the family Toxotidae that prey on insects by knocking them off vegetation with a jet of water shot from the mouth.
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- noun Any of the species of
fish in the Toxotidae (toxotes )family , who prey on small animals near to the surface of a water by shooting them withwater from their mouths.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
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Examples
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Continents collide in the new £100,000 attraction, where other tanks feature a variety of creatures from South America, including frogs, archerfish, mudskippers and piranha.
EDP24 News 2010
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Under water, this world changes more rapidly from top to bottom than it does in air and archerfish have come up with a neat system of accounting for this change and retaining exquisitely tuned vision in every direction at once.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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An image of archerfish preying on insects above the surface.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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An image of archerfish preying on insects above the surface.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Under water, this world changes more rapidly from top to bottom than it does in air and archerfish have come up with a neat system of accounting for this change and retaining exquisitely tuned vision in every direction at once.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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I’ve managed to persuade the archerfish to take Arowana Sticks in addition to crickets, so feeding is a lot easier.
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I’ve managed to persuade the archerfish to take Arowana Sticks in addition to crickets, so feeding is a lot easier.
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"The correlation we found between the colour sensitivity of the archerfish eye for
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"The correlation we found between the colour sensitivity of the archerfish eye for
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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