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Answer for the clue "Swimmer with large pectoral fins ", 8 letters:
wingfish

Word definitions for wingfish in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A sea robin with large, wing-like pectoral fins.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Robin \Rob"in\, n. [Properly a pet name for Robert, originally meaning, famebright; F., fron OHG. Roudperht; ruod (in comp.; akin to AS. hr?? glory, fame, Goth. hr?peigs victorius) + beraht bright. See Bright , Hob a clown.] (Zo["o]l.) A small European ...

Usage examples of wingfish.

I longed to shape a tree branch into a pronged trident, to spear a fat wingfish, to fillet it with my overgrown fingernails and suck down the salty meat.

They were too far from land to sight any birds, and the only sealife Bardolin had glimpsed were a few shoals of wingfish flitting over the surface of the waves.

They hauled in herrin on their westward migration, wingfish, huge tub-bodied feluna, and sometimes the writhing, entangled sliminess of large octopuses, some of them almost big enough to swamp the smaller of the longboats.