hatchetfish


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hatchetfish
noun (pl. same or hatchetfishes) a deep-bodied laterally compressed tropical freshwater fish of the New World, able to fly short distances in the air by beating its broad pectoral fins. [Family Gasteropelecidae: several species.]
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