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pipefish


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pipefish  \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 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pipefish 
  n  :  fish  with  long  tubular  snout  and  slim  body  covered  with  bony 
  plates  [syn:  {needlefish}] 




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