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Flying Gurnard

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Noun

1. butterflyfish, flying gurnard, flying robin

tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Flying Gurnard

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noun
any marine spiny-finned gurnard-like fish of the mostly tropical family Dactylopteridae, having enlarged fan-shaped pectoral fins used to glide above the surface of the sea

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Flying Gurnard

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any of an order (Dactylopteriformes) of marine bony fishes with winglike pectoral fins, capable of gliding in the air for short distances

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Flying Gurnard

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n.
Any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes of the family Dactylopteridae, having greatly enlarged, winglike pectoral fins that facilitate gliding through the water.

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