counternaiant

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English[edit]

Arms of Peebles, Scotland: gules, three salmon counter-naiant in pale proper.

Etymology[edit]

counter- +‎ naiant

Adjective[edit]

counternaiant (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry, of fish) Depicted swimming in opposite horizontal directions.

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