flying robin

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   tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins

   Synonymsflying gurnardbutterflyfish

   Broaderscorpaenoid

   Part ofDactylopteridae

Questions about flying robin

What does flying robin mean?

flying robin means "tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins".

What is another word for flying robin?

Close synonyms include flying gurnard, butterflyfish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flying robin a common word?

flying robin 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.