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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Pipefish

/pīp'-fĭshˌ/ · Pipe·fish · IPA /pˈaɪpfˌɪʃ/
01 n. Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with b…
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    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.(Zool.)