noun
- small tropical fish that can live both in water and on land, found in mangrove swamps and mudflats
Usage: zoology; plural form
Examples
- Mudskippers use their fins to crawl across the muddy shore.
- The mangrove ecosystem is home to many mudskippers.
- Scientists study how mudskippers breathe air through their skin.
- Mudskippers can survive out of water for several hours.
- The children watched mudskippers hopping along the riverbank.
- Mudskippers are fascinating examples of evolutionary adaptation.