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Pipefish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Any of various slim elongated fishes of the family Syngnathidae, living in temperate and warm seas and characterized by a tubelike snout and an external covering of bony plates.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. a small fish from the seahorse family

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One of the several lopho-branehiate fishes which have a long tubular snout like a pipe, as any member of the Syngnathidæ or Hippo-campidæ.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates

Word Usage

"A skinny little fish called the pipefish is high on the list of wildlife oddities, for the male of the species is the one which gets pregnant."

Cross Reference

sargasso pipe-fish great pipe-fish ocean pipe-fish

Variant

pipefishes

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