Definition of archerfish Archerfish

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What does archerfish mean?

Noun Plural: archerfishes
archerfish - any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia
		Toxotes jaculatrix
		percoid, percoid fish, percoidean any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes

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archerfish (Noun)
Any of the species of fish in the Toxotidae toxotes family, who prey on small animals near to the surface of a water by shooting them with water from their mouths.

Archerfish (or archer fish) are small fish. Some live in fresh water. Others live in salt water. They live from India to the Philippines, Australia, and Polynesia.

Archerfish eat insects and other small animals. The archerfish looks for an insect hanging over the water. The archerfish shoots drops of water out of its mouth at the insect. When the drops hit the insect, it falls into the water. Then the archerfish catches (gets) the insect and eats it.

Archerfish can hit insects up to two meters (six feet) away. Adult archerfish almost always hit the insect the first time, but young archerfish must do it many times in order to learn how.