noun
bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout
• Syn: ↑order Solenichthyes
• Hypernyms: ↑animal order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Teleostei, ↑subclass Teleostei
• Member Meronyms:
↑Fistulariidae, ↑family Fistulariidae, ↑Gasterosteidae, ↑family Gasterosteidae, ↑Syngnathidae, ↑family Syngnathidae, ↑Macrorhamphosidae, ↑family Macrorhamphosidae, ↑Centriscidae, ↑family Centriscidae, ↑Aulostomidae, ↑family Aulostomidae
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\\ˌsōləˈnikthēˌēz\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
: a small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes (as the bellows fishes, shrimpfishes, and cornetfishes) that are of varied and sometimes bizarre form but all have the small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout — compare thoracostei
Useful english dictionary. 2012.