pipefish

2 definitions found

pipefish - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pipefish \Pipe"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
     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.
     [1913 Webster] Pipelayer

pipefish - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pipefish
      n 1: fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with
           bony plates [syn: pipefish, needlefish]