Flying Gurnard

Definition: Flying Gurnard

Flying Gurnard

Noun

1. Tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins.

Specialty Definition: Flying gurnard

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flying gurnards

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Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Actinopterygii

Order: Scorpaeniformes

Family: Dactylopteridae

Genera

Dactyloptena
Dactylopterus

The flying gurnards are a family (Dactylopteridae) of marine fish notable for their greatly enlarged pectoral fins, which they use to "walk" along sandy sea floors while looking for crustaceans and other small invertebrates.
The family is small, with seven species in two genera.
Genus Dactyloptena:

Dactyloptena gilberti
Spotwing flying gurnard (Dactyloptena macracantha)
Oriental flying gurnard (Dactyloptena orientalis)
Butterfly flying gurnard (Dactyloptena papilio)
Starry flying gurnard (Dactyloptena peterseni)
Dactyloptena tiltoni

Genus Dactylopterus:

Flying gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans)

Reference

FishBase entry for Dactylopteridae
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flying gurnard."

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Synonyms: Flying Gurnard

Synonyms: butterflyfish (n), flying robin (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Flying Gurnard

English words defined with "flying gurnard": Butterfly fish ♦ Volador. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Flying Gurnard

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
flying gurnard	4
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Ancestral Language Translations: Flying Gurnard

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	accipiter, accipitrem. (various references)
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Anagrams: Flying Gurnard

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-f-g-g-i-l-n-n-r-r-u-y"
	-3 letters: unfadingly.
	-4 letters: argufying, flurrying.
	-5 letters: dangling, daringly, flanging, gnarling, gnarring, grayling, guarding, infrugal, ragingly, undaring, unfading, unfairly, ungainly, unlading, unlaying, urgingly.
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