noun
small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth
• Syn: ↑snipefish
• Hypernyms: ↑teleost fish, ↑teleost, ↑teleostan
• Member Holonyms: ↑Macrorhamphosidae, ↑family Macrorhamphosidae
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noun1. : any of several fishes (family Macrorhamphosidae) having a deep compressed body and long tubular snout — called also snipefish, trumpet fish
2. : angler 2a
3. : a globefish (Sphoeroides maculatus)
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snipefish.
[1675-85]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.