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Pipefish

A small fish of the seahorse family, having a long thin body covered with partially ossified plates, the head long, and the jaws elongated so as to form a tubular snout.

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A small fish of the seahorse family, having a long thin body covered with partially ossified plates, the head long, and the jaws elongated so as to form a tubular snout.

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needlefishnoun	Any of certain species of slender fish, principally of the family Belonidae, many usually found in shallow marine habitats.

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needlefishnoun	Any of certain species of slender fish, principally of the family Belonidae, many usually found in shallow marine habitats.
pipe-fishnoun	Alternative form of pipefish. [A small fish of subfamily Syngnathinae in the seahorse family, having a long thin body covered with partially ossified plates, the head long, and the jaws elongated so as to form a tubular snout.]
billfishnoun	Any of several fish, of the families Istiophoridae and Xiphiidae, that have an elongated jaw.
boxfishnoun	Any of the family Ostraciidae of often colorful, squared, bony fishes.
filefishnoun	Any fish of the family Monacanthidae, with very slender bodies.
tilefishnoun	Any of the mostly small, perciform marine fish in the family Malacanthidae; an important food fish.
snailfishnoun	Any member of the Liparidae, a family of scorpaeniform marine fish.
bandfishnoun	Any of many perciform fish of the family Cepolidae
batfishnoun	Any of several spade-shaped, laterally compressed, reef-dwelling tropical fish of the genus Platax.
chinafishnoun	Any of several fish of the family Ophicephalidae or of the genus Sebastodes
sawfishnoun	Any ray (marine fish with a flat body and wing-like fins) of the family Pristidae, having a snout that resembles a saw.
firefishnoun	Any of various fish of the genera Pterois and Parapterois.
pigfishnoun	Any one of several species of salt-water grunts, called also hogfish.
boarfishnoun	Any of a number of fish that have a projecting snout, in either of two families:
horsefishnoun	Any of several species of fish in the family Congiopodidae.
penfishnoun	A squid.
weatherfishnoun	A loach of the genus Misgurnus
footballfishnoun	Any of the species of deep-sea anglerfishes in the family Himantolophidae.
moonfishnoun	Any of various flat, oval marine fish of numerous species in several families:
queenfishnoun	(US, Canada, UK) A queen croaker, of species Seriphus politus, of North America, with elongated body and large mouth.