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pipefish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pipefish has 1 sense
- pipefish(n = noun.animal) needlefish - fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates; Array is a member of family syngnathidae, syngnathidae
has particulars: dwarf pipefish, syngnathus hildebrandi, cosmocampus profundus, deepwater pipefish, sea horse, seahorse
is a kind of teleost, teleost fish, teleostan
CIDE DICTIONARY
pipefish, n.
Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma , or Syngnathus , and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place. [1913 Webster]
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