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mudskipper

[ UK /mˈʌdskɪpɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins

How To Use mudskipper In A Sentence

  • More cryptic but equally fascinating are the mudskippers, a gobioid fish that climbs out of the water into mudflats and even climbs trees. Sundarbans mangroves
  • To see above and below the water, mudskippers pop their movable eyes out of the water and move them up and down like a submarine periscope.
  • He cites the walking catfish, climbing perch, and mudskippers as other examples.
  • Her mouth opened and closed like a mudskipper as she bleated confusedly, Lord Mountrachet? The Forgotten Garden
  • A few, like the walking catfish and the mudskipper, are able to crawl about on land, to find food or new habitats.
  • If you’re lucky, you may see a fish called the mudskipper climbing on the roots, using its tail and fins as a makeshift set of legs. The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
  • Their game is mud; skipping and jumping across the shore at low tide, mudskippers give new meaning to the phrase ‘fish out of water.’
  • But if he's a fish out of water, then Baker is something of a mudskipper, a fish that also walks on land. Aspiring opera singer finds racial harmony at Suitland High
  • But in reading this account, weren’t you struck by how cavalierly the news agency threw out the term mudskipper? M. Skipper, Plaintiff » Japundit Blog
  • A better example than the mudskipper would be the coelacanths, or lobe-fin fish which, along with lungfish, diverged about the same time as tetrapods (as supported by genetic evidence). A Disclaimer for Behe?
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