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Pipefish

Pipefish Meaning & Definition
Pipefish Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pipefish?

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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pipefish: needlefish

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See Also | Cosmocampus profundus | deepwater pipefish | dwarf pipefish | family Syngnathidae | sea horse | seahorse | Syngnathidae | Syngnathus hildebrandi | teleost | teleost fish | teleostan

Pipefish In Webster's Dictionary

\Pipe"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) 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.

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