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BELLOWS FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bellows fish mean? 

BELLOWS FISH (noun)
  The noun BELLOWS FISH has 1 sense:

1. small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouthplay

  Familiarity information: BELLOWS FISH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BELLOWS FISH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bellows fish; snipefish

Hypernyms ("bellows fish" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("bellows fish" is a member of...):

family Macrorhamphosidae; Macrorhamphosidae (bellows fishes)


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