Butterflyfish

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  butterflyfish \butterflyfish\ n.
     tropical gurnardlike fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for
     underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins.
  
     Syn: flying gurnard, flying robin.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  butterflyfish
       n : tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater
           gliding; unrelated to searobins [syn: {flying gurnard}, {flying
           robin}]