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toxotes

toxotes noun: any fish of genus Toxotes, the archerfishes.

Noun

toxotes (plural toxotai)

  1. Any fish of genus Toxotes, the archerfishes.
  2. (historical) A Greek archer armed with a short Greek bow and a short sword.

Proper noun capitalized: Toxotes

Toxotes (plural Toxotai)

  1. Sagittarius, the archer.

toxotes meaning in Tamil

toxotes in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Forms of toxotes

Noun
pluraltoxotai
Proper noun
pluralToxotai

Origin of toxotes

From Ancient Greek τοξότης (toxótēs, “bowman, archer”).

Questions about toxotes

What does toxotes mean?
Toxotes means any fish of genus Toxotes, the archerfishes.
What is toxotes in Tamil?
Toxotes in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Toxotes meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is toxotes?
Toxotes can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of toxotes?
The plural of toxotes is toxotai.

Words near toxotes in the dictionary

  1. toxosozines
  2. toxosozins
  3. toxostasis
  4. toxostatic
  5. toxotai
  6. toxotes
  7. toxotid
  8. toxotids
  9. toxtazin
  10. toxtazins
  11. Toxteth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toxotes (page history and authors); Toxotes (page history and authors); toxotes (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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