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SANDFISH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand

Synonyms:

beaked salmon; Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus; sandfish

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sandfish" is a kind of...):

malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)

Holonyms ("sandfish" is a member of...):

genus Gonorhynchus; Gonorhynchus (slender cylindrical marine fishes lacking air bladders and teeth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sandfish" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Holonyms ("sandfish" is a member of...):

family Trichodontidae; Trichodontidae (two species of elongate compressed scaleless large-eyed fishes that live in sand or mud)

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