seaplane

seaplane

English

A de Havilland Otter floatplane

A Grumman G-111 Albatross amphibious flying boat landing

Etymology

sea +‎ plane

Pronunciation

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Noun

seaplane (plural seaplanes)

1. (aircraft, nautical) Any aircraft capable of taking off from, and alighting on the surface of water.

   Synonym: hydroplane

Hyponyms

• floatplane, float plane
• flying boat

Translations

an aircraft

Afrikaans: vliegboot Basque: ur-hegazkin Bulgarian: хидроплан (bg) m (hidroplan) Catalan: hidroavió m Chinese: Mandarin: 水上飛機／水上飞机 (zh) (shuǐshàng fēijī) Czech: hydroplán (cs) m Danish: vandfly n Dutch: watervliegtuig (nl) n Esperanto: hidroplano Estonian: vesilennuk Faroese: sjóflogfar n Finnish: vesitaso (fi), vesilentokone French: hydravion (fr) m Galician: hidroavión (gl) m German: Wasserflugzeug (de) n Greek: υδροπλάνο (el) n (ydropláno) Hungarian: hidroplán (hu) Icelandic: sjóflugvél f Italian: idrovolante (it) m Japanese: 水上機 (ja) (すいじょうき, suijōki) Macedonian: хидроавио́н m (hidroavión) Norwegian: Bokmål: sjøfly n Nynorsk: sjøfly n Polish: wodnosamolot m, hydroplan (pl) m Portuguese: hidroavião (pt) m Romanian: hidroavion (ro) n Russian: гидросамолёт (ru) m (gidrosamoljót), гидропла́н (ru) m (gidroplán) Slovene: hidroplan m Spanish: hidroavión (es) m Swedish: sjöflygplan (sv) n Vietnamese: thủy phi cơ (vi)

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