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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Dac'tyl-ŏp'ter-ŭs, n.

noun

n. [See supra.] (Ichth.) A genus of fishes containing two species, the flying fish, or flying gurnard, and the D. orientalis of Cuvier. Ogilvie.

A flying gurnard with large, outstretched wing-like fins.
Flying Gurnard (Dactylopterus).