PIPEFISHES

PIPEFISH

pipefish, needlefish

(noun) fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

pipefishes

plural of pipefish

Source: Wiktionary


PIPEFISH

Pipe"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)

Definition: Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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