flying fish

See also: flyingfish

English

A flying fish

Noun

flying fish (plural flying fishes or flying fish)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flying,‎ fish.
2. A tropical marine fish of the family Exocoetidae, having enlarged winglike pectoral fins enabling it to escape predators by taking short gliding flights through the air.

Translations

tropical marine fish

• Catalan: peix volador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飛魚／飞鱼 (zh) (fēiyú)

• Danish: flyvefisk c
• Dutch: vliegende vis (nl) m
• Faroese: flogfiskur m
• Finnish: liitokala, lentokala (fi)
• French: poisson volant (fr), exocet (fr)
• Galician: peixe voador (gl) m
• German: fliegender Fisch m
• Italian: pesce volante m
• Japanese: トビウオ (tobiuo), 飛び魚 (とびうお, tobiuo)
• Kabuverdianu: vuador
• Lü: ᦔᦱᦢᦲᧃ (ṗaaḃiin)
• Maori: maroro
• Mokilese: moangoar
• Navajo: łóóʼ naatʼaʼí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flygefisk (no) m, flyvefisk (no) m

  Nynorsk: flygefisk m

• Palauan: kok
• Portuguese: peixe-voador (pt) m
• Russian: лету́чая ры́ба f (letúčaja rýba)
• Spanish: pez volador m
• Swedish: flygfisk (sv) c
• Tagalog: iliw, isdanlawin
• Thai: ปลาบิน (th)
• Vietnamese: cá chuồn
• Volapük: flitafit (vo)

See also

• flying carp

Anagrams

• fly fishing, fly-fishing, flyfishing