SANDFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sandfish mean? 

• SANDFISH (noun)
  The noun SANDFISH has 2 senses:

1. either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand

2. fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand

  Familiarity information: SANDFISH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SANDFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

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

family Trichodontidae; Trichodontidae (two species of elongate compressed scaleless large-eyed fishes that live in sand or mud)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

beaked salmon; Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus; sandfish

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

malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)

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

genus Gonorhynchus; Gonorhynchus (slender cylindrical marine fishes lacking air bladders and teeth)