SNAILFISH

snailfish, seasnail, sea snail, Liparis liparis

(noun) small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

snailfish (plural snailfishes or snailfish)

Any member of the Liparidae, a family of scorpaeniform marine fish.

Synonyms

• seasnail

Source: Wiktionary


Snail"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)

Definition: See Sea snail (a).

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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