pipefish (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *pipefish*:
NOUN	animal	pipefish, needlefish	fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates

pipefish > pronunciation
Sounds	pay'pfih.sh
Rhymes	abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh...

English > *pipefish*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates.
Synonym	needlefish
Member of	Syngnathidae, family Syngnathidae	pipefishes
Narrower	deepwater pipefish, Cosmocampus profundus	A fish 8 inches long
	dwarf pipefish, Syngnathus hildebrandi	small (4 inches) fish found off the Florida Gulf Coast
	seahorse, sea horse	small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails
Broader	teleost fish, teleost, teleostan	A bony fish of the subclass Teleostei
Spanish	pez pipa

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