Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sea-snipe, woodcock-fish, bellows-fish, or trumpet-fish, Centriscus (or Macrorhamphosus) scolopax: so called from its long snout, likened to a snipe's beak.
- noun A murænoid or eel-like fish of the genus Nemichthys, as N. scolopaceus; a snipe-eel.
- noun The garfish. Belone vulgaris: in allusion to the snipe-like extension of the jaws.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The bellows fish.
- noun A long, slender deep-sea fish (
Nemichthys scolopaceus ) with a slender beak.
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- noun Either of the two species of fish of the Macroramphosus genus.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth
Etymologies
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snipe + fish
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