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Noun: beaked salmon  beekt sa-mun
  1. Fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand
    "The beaked salmon uses its distinctive snout to dig into sandy seafloors";
    - sandfish, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus

Derived forms: beaked salmon

Type of: malacopterygian, soft-finned fish

Part of: genus Gonorhynchus, Gonorhynchus

Encyclopedia: Beaked salmon