Crossword-Solution: TOXOTES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Toxotes | n. | A genus of fishes comprising the archer fishes. See Archer fish. |
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| ARCHER fish | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with TOXOTES (5)
The _toxotes jaculator_, which lives in the rivers of India, and feeds upon insects, cannot afford to wait until the insects which thrive upon the leaves of aquatic plants fall into the water.
Acts of this nature are considered to indicate a high degree of development, and it has often been repeated that they are the appanage of man alone; we have, however, seen the _Toxotes_, who, like all fishes, is not particularly intelligent, squirt water on to his victims.
Tiger-beetle Titmouse Toad Tortoise _Toxotes jaculator_ Trap-door spider Tristram _Troglodytes calvus_ Tschüdi Tyrant-bird _Uranoscopus scaber_ _Vespa sylvestris_ Vizcacha Vole Wasp Waterton Weaver-bird Wodzicki Wolves Woodpecker Woven dwellings _Xylocopa violacea_ THE WALTER SCOTT PRESS, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.
Under him were subordinate officials, the hoplomachos, a sort of fencing instructor; the akontistes, toxotes, and katapaltaphetes or aphetes, who taught the use of the javelin, bow, and catapult respectively.
Besides these there were in Hellenistic times special instructors for special exercises, the sphairistes who taught ball-play, the akontistes and toxotes who gave instruction in the use of the javelin and the bow, and the hoplomachos who gave lessons in the use of arms.