rifle fish

English

Noun

rifle fish (plural rifle fish)

1. (Australia) Any of several tropical freshwater fish of the family Toxotidae.
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 169:

     The other fish Will expected could be hooked, perhaps, a few reasonable-sized freshwater sooty grunter, rifle fish or bream, if the boat was in the main water arteries coming up to the coast from the spring-fed river systems.

See also

• archerfish