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flying fish

Syllabification: (fly·ing fish)
Definition of flying fish

noun

  • a fish of warm seas that leaps out of the water and uses its winglike pectoral fins to glide over the surface for some distance.
    • Family Exocoetidae: several genera and species, in particular Exocoetus volitans

flying fish in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of flying fish in the British & World English dictionary