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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of fishes, typical of the family Toxotidæ; the archer-fishes. See cut under archerfish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A genus of fishes comprising the archer fishes. See archer fish.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any fish of genus Toxotes, the archerfishes.
  • noun historical A Greek archer armed with a short Greek bow and a short sword.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun type genus of the Toxotidae

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek τοξότης (toksοtēs, "bowman, archer").

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