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Noun: snipefish
  1. Small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth
    "The snipefish used its elongated snout to probe the sand for food";
    - bellows fish

Derived forms: snipefishes

Type of: teleost, teleost fish, teleostan

Part of: family Macrorhamphosidae, Macrorhamphosidae

Encyclopedia: Snipefish