flying boat

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   a large seaplane that floats with its fuselage in the water rather than on pontoons

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Questions about flying boat

What does flying boat mean?

flying boat means "a large seaplane that floats with its fuselage in the water rather than on pontoons".

Is flying boat a common word?

flying boat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.