flying fish

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   tropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight

   Broaderteleost fish

   Narrowermonoplane flying fishbiplane flying fish

   Part ofExocoetidae

Questions about flying fish

What does flying fish mean?

flying fish means "tropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight".

Is flying fish a common word?

flying fish 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.