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SNIPEFISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: snipefishes   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth

Synonyms:

bellows fish; snipefish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("snipefish" is a kind of...):

teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)

Holonyms ("snipefish" is a member of...):

family Macrorhamphosidae; Macrorhamphosidae (bellows fishes)

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