noun
small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth
• Syn: ↑bellows fish
• Hypernyms: ↑teleost fish, ↑teleost, ↑teleostan
• Member Holonyms: ↑Macrorhamphosidae, ↑family Macrorhamphosidae
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/snuyp"fish'/, n., pl. (esp. collectively) snipefish, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) snipefishes.
any of several fishes of the family Macrorhamphosidae, of tropical and temperate seas, having a long, tubular snout and a compressed body. Also called bellows fish.
[1660-70; SNIPE + FISH]
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snipeˈfish noun
The trumpetfish
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Main Entry: ↑snipe
Useful english dictionary. 2012.