Crossword-Solution: PIPEFISH
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| Pipefish | n. | 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. |
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| teleost fish with a long tubelike snout and an elongated body covered with bony plates | 1 answer |
| Needle-fish | 7 answers |
| slender fish | 9 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with PIPEFISH (4)
Protection of fishes: sting-ray; torpedo; coral-fish; sturgeon; lava-fish; swordfish; sawfish; pipefish.
Shoals of fish moved leisurely along the face of the coral—appearing and disappearing like nesting swallows, seen from a cliff-top: swinish parrot fish, bright blue and long as a man’s arm; _taputapu_, spangled orange and black—stopping to nibble at the coral; slender pipefish; swift _nanue_; fish of extraordinary form and coloring—indescribable, perhaps undescribed.
The fins are rotated or twisted, and their free margins lashed about by spiral movements which closely resemble those by which the wings of insects are propelled.[45] The rotating of the fish upon its long axis is seen to advantage in the shark and sturgeon, the former of which requires to turn on its side before it can seize its prey,--and likewise in the pipefish, whose motions are unwontedly sluggish.
Shoals of fish moved leisurely along the face of the coral--appearing and disappearing like nesting swallows, seen from a cliff-top: swinish parrot fish, bright blue and long as a man's arm; _taputapu_, spangled orange and black--stopping to nibble at the coral; slender pipefish; swift _nanue_; fish of extraordinary form and coloring--indescribable, perhaps undescribed.
Quotes with PIPEFISH (1)
Yes, sir, but the Librarian likes bananas, sir.""Very nourishin' fruit, Mr Stibbons.""Yes, sir. Although, funnily enough it's not actually a fruit, sir.""Really?""Yes, sir. Botanically, it's a type of fish, sir. According to my theory it's cladistically associated with the Krullian pipefish, sir, which of course is also yellow and goes around in bunches or shoals.""And lives in trees?""Well, not usually, sir. The banana is obviously exploiting a new niche.""Good heavens, real…