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Definition of Toxotes
1. Noun. Type genus of the Toxotidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Toxotidae, Toxotidae
Member holonyms: Archerfish, Toxotes Jaculatrix
Definition of Toxotes
1. n. A genus of fishes comprising the archer fishes. See Archer fish.
Definition of Toxotes
1. Proper noun. Another name for Sagittarius the archer. ¹
2. Noun. A genus of fishes comprising the archerfishes. ¹
3. Noun. A Greek archer armed with a short Greek bow and a short sword. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Toxotes
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Toxotes
Literary usage of Toxotes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"Toxotes, Cuv. Have the body short and compressed; the dorsal on the latter half
... The known species (Toxotes jaculator, Cuv.), La- brus jaculator, Shaw, ..."
2. Guide to the Gallery of Fishes in the Department of Zoology of the British by William George Ridewood (1908)
"The statement, however, has probably arisen from a confusion between this fish
and the Archer-fish, Toxotes jaculator (506, \Vall- FIG. 70. ..."
3. Stories from heathen mythology and Greek history by John Mason Neale (1847)
"At this moment one of the skives of Charon entered the room. " What is itj Sosias ?"
demanded his master. " A Toxotes (policeman) from the Polemarchs has a ..."
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