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flying fish
noun
A tropical marine fish of the family Exocoetidae, having enlarged winglike pectoral fins enabling it to escape predators by taking short gliding flights through the air.
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The Red-billed Tropicbird feeds primarily by plunge-diving for its preferred food, flying-fish, and it has been known to even take flying fish on the wing.
The air is full of flying fish.
Philosophy, flying fish and feathered rivers.
White caps and flying fish lace the water.
Yes, there are sharks, whales and flying fish.
Roe supposedly from flying fish was actually from smelt.
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However, unlike scombroid fish, histamine poisoning due to consumption of flying fish has never been reported.
Flying-fish, however, may be taken in mid-air during leaps.
These and several other elements combine to create the final mix, an overwhelming flying-fish cacophony.
He showed me how he chopped carrots until they looked like flying-fish roe.
The sound made by the Atlantean flying-fish vehicles posed a particular challenge.
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