Noun: snipefish
- 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