Word Meanings - SNIPEFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The bellows fish. A long, slender deep-sea fish with a slender beak.

Related words: (words related to SNIPEFISH)

• SLENDER
  Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n. (more info) slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen,
• BELLOWS
  An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the
• BELLOWS FISH
  A European fish , distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.
• WATER BELLOWS
  See TROMP