noun
1. either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand
• Hypernyms: ↑percoid fish, ↑percoid, ↑percoidean
• Member Holonyms: ↑Trichodontidae, ↑family Trichodontidae
2. fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand
• Syn: ↑beaked salmon, ↑Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus
• Hypernyms: ↑soft-finned fish, ↑malacopterygian
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gonorhynchus, ↑genus Gonorhynchus
Useful english dictionary. 2012.