■ noun ( plural same or ~es ) a deep-bodied laterally compressed tropical freshwater fish of the New World, able to fly short distances in the air by beating its broad pectoral fins. [Family Gasteropelecidae: several species.]
HATCHETFISH
Meaning of HATCHETFISH in English
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