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BELLOWS FISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bellows fish mean?
• BELLOWS FISH (noun)
The noun BELLOWS FISH has 1 sense:
1. small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth
Familiarity information: BELLOWS FISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
bellows fish; snipefish
Hypernyms ("bellows fish" is a kind of...):
teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)
Holonyms ("bellows fish" is a member of...):
family Macrorhamphosidae; Macrorhamphosidae (bellows fishes)
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