counternaiant

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English

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

Etymology

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From counter- +‎ naiant.

Adjective

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counternaiant (not comparable)

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

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