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单词 jaculator fish
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jaculator fish
2. A fish ( Toxotes jaculator) which has the power of shooting a drop of water at insects that come near it; = archer n. 5. Also jaculator fish.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Toxotidae (archer)
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shooting-fish1803
archer1834
rifle fish1897
1765 J. A. Schlosser in Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 89 Governor Hommel gives the following account of the Jaculator or shooting fish.
1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 220.
1897 Alden's Juvenile Gem (N.Y.) Mar. 79/1 The jaculator fish,..in the lakes of Java, uses its mouth as a squirtgun and is a good marksman.
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