snipefish

snipefish

(ˈsnaɪpˌfɪʃ) n, pl -fish or -fishes (Animals) any teleost fish of the family Macrorhamphosidae, of tropical and temperate seas, having a deep body, long snout, and a single long dorsal fin: order Solenichthyes (sea horses, etc). Also called: bellows fish [C17: so called because of the resemblance between its snout and a snipe's bill]

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snipefish - small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouthbellows fishfamily Macrorhamphosidae, Macrorhamphosidae - bellows fishesteleost, teleost fish, teleostan - a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei