Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various slim fishes of the subfamily Syngnathinae chiefly of marine waters, having a tubelike snout and an elongated body encased in bony rings.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the several lopho-branehiate fishes which have a long tubular snout like a pipe, as any member of the Syngnathidæ or Hippo-campidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a small fish from the
seahorse family
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word pipefish.
Examples
-
A skinny little fish called the pipefish is high on the list of wildlife oddities, for the male of the species is the one which gets pregnant.
News24 Top Stories 2010
-
The pipefish, which is related to the seahorse, has an unusual way of organising childcare.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
-
This one contained a slab of grey stone from the Marecchia River Formation in Italy, bearing the complete skeleton of a 20+ centimeter specimen of Syngnathus acus, an extinct species of pipefish from the Lower Pliocene (about 3-5 million years old).
"You can't watch your own image and also look yourself in the eye." faustfatale 2010
-
This one contained a slab of grey stone from the Marecchia River Formation in Italy, bearing the complete skeleton of a 20+ centimeter specimen of Syngnathus acus, an extinct species of pipefish from the Lower Pliocene (about 3-5 million years old).
"You can't watch your own image and also look yourself in the eye." faustfatale 2010
-
Other resident fish species include threespine stickleback, gunnels, sculpin and bay pipefish (Figure 1).
Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Washington 2008
-
Fishes then in general produce their young by copulation, and lay their eggs; but the pipefish, as some call it, when the time of parturition arrives, bursts in two, and the eggs escape out.
-
Another pipefish, the Longsnout (Syngnathus acus) was common in these rivers and used to co-exist with the River Pipefish.
-
Just out of the corner of my eye they can hide like pipefish in reeds but I have seen the movement.
The Dragon Reborn Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1991
-
Stay at Lembeh Resort lembehresort.com, grab your underwater camera and follow your dive master as he points out the weird and the wonderful: frogfish, ornate ghost pipefish, flying gurnards and devil scorpionfish.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Darryl Leniuk 2011
-
Stay at Lembeh Resort lembehresort.com, grab your underwater camera and follow your dive master as he points out the weird and the wonderful: frogfish, ornate ghost pipefish, flying gurnards and devil scorpionfish.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Darryl Leniuk 2011
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.