snipefish

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Definition of snipefish in English English dictionary

Either of the two species of fish of the Macroramphosus genus

The bellows fish

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

A long, slender deep-sea fish (Nemichthys scolopaceus) with a slender beak

Related Terms

longspine snipefish

A moderately elongate species of snipefish with a tubular snout equal to about a quarter of the total body length, scientific name Macroramphosus scolopax

Hyphenation

snipe·fish