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archerfish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.24 in modern English

Syllables
archer-fish
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Etymology

From archer + fish.

Inflected Forms

archerfishes (plural)

Phrases

banded archerfish big scale archerfish brackish archerfish clouded archerfish common archerfish Kimberly archerfish largescale archerfish primitive archerfish

Frequently Paired Words

†Toxotes beauforti

Synonyms

toxotes jaculatrix

Questions

What does archerfish mean?
Any member of the species in the family Toxotidae (principally genus Toxotes) of fish who prey on small animals near to the surface of a water by shooting them with water from their mouths.
Where does archerfish come from?
From archer + fish.

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