HyperDic: snipefish

English > 1 sense of the word *snipefish*:
NOUN	animal	snipefish, bellows fish	small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth

English > *snipefish*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth.
Synonym	bellows fish
Member of	Macrorhamphosidae, family Macrorhamphosidae	bellows fishes
Broader	teleost fish, teleost, teleostan	A bony fish of the subclass Teleostei