| NOUN | animal | sandfish | either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand |
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| animal | sandfish, beaked salmon, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus | fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand |
| Meaning | Either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand. | |
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| Member of | Trichodontidae, family Trichodontidae | Two species of elongate compressed scaleless large-eyed fishes that live in sand or mud |
| Broader | percoid fish, percoid, percoidean | Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes |
| Meaning | fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand. | |
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| Synonyms | beaked salmon, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus | |
| Member of | Gonorhynchus, genus Gonorhynchus | slender cylindrical marine fishes lacking air bladders and teeth |
| Broader | soft-finned fish, malacopterygian | Any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii |
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