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    SNIPEFISH

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    Irregular inflected form: snipefishes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouthplay

    Synonyms:

    bellows fish; snipefish

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

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

    teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)

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

    family Macrorhamphosidae; Macrorhamphosidae (bellows fishes)

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