sandfish
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Noun (2)
- either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sandType of percoid fish, percoidMember of Trichodontidae, family Trichodontidae
- fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sandSynonyms: beaked salmonGonorhynchus gonorhynchusType of soft-finned fish, malacopterygianMember of Gonorhynchus, genus Gonorhynchus
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Sand′fish′ noun
Zoology A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America (Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54