pipe-fish

The so-called needle-fish (or pipe-fish) is late in spawning, and the greater portion of them are burst asunder by the eggs before spawning; and the eggs are not so many in number as large in size.

The History of Animals 2002

Other fishes breed both in winter and in summer, as was previously observed: as, for instance, in winter-time the basse, the grey mullet, and the belone or pipe-fish; and in summer-time, from the middle of June to the middle of July, the female tunny, about the time of the summer solstice; and the tunny lays a sac-like enclosure in which are contained a number of small eggs.

The History of Animals 2002

Here long winding chains of flotsam marked the sea's slow retreat, fascinating chains full of coloured seaweed, dead pipe-fish, fishing-net corks that looked good enough to eat - like lumps of rich fruit cake - bits of bottle - glass emeried and carved into translucent jewels by the tide and the sand, shells as spiky as hedgehogs, others smooth, oval, and delicate pink, like the finger-nails of some drowned goddess.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

I wanted this particular kind of a pipe-fish because he is half a shellfish and half an ordinary fish.

The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1916

The conception of adaptation applies to these also, since we find that characters consist often of weapons such as horns, antlers, and spurs, used in sexual combat, of copulatory or clasping organs such as the pads on a frog's forefeet, of ornamental plumage like the peacock's tail serving to charm the female, or of special pouches as in species of pipe-fish and frog for holding the eggs or young.

Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897

The common English pipe-fish is a good example of the other and much more usual case in which the father alone is actuated by a proper sense of parental responsibility.

A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

In the illustration this fold is partly withdrawn, so as to show the young pipe-fish within their safe retreat after hatching out.

A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

England, but which closely recalls the habits of the stickleback and the pipe-fish.

A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

The pipe-fish, indeed, might almost be described as a pure and blameless rate-payer.

A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

Some American tree-frogs, on the other hand, imitate rather the motherly Solenostoma than the fatherly instincts of the pipe-fish or the stickleback.

A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891