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PIPEFISH (pipefishes)

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Dictionary entry overview: What does pipefish mean?

• PIPEFISH (noun)
The noun PIPEFISH has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: PIPEFISH used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PIPEFISH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pipefish; needlefish

Hypernyms ("pipefish" is a kind of...):

teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pipefish"):

dwarf pipefish; Syngnathus hildebrandi (small (4 inches) fish found off Florida gulf coast)

Cosmocampus profundus; deepwater pipefish (8 inches; from eastern Florida to western Caribbean)

sea horse; seahorse (small fish with horselike heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position)

Holonyms ("pipefish" is a member of...):

family Syngnathidae; Syngnathidae (pipefishes)

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