Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish of the genus Trichodon, or any member of the Trichodontidæ (which see for technical characters).
- noun A silvery scaleless fish of the North Pacific, Trichodon trichodon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America (
Trichodon trichodon ) which buries itself in the sand.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
marine fish that burrow into asandy seabeds - noun The
beaked salmon (Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand
- noun fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand
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Examples
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So-called 'sandfish' could help materials handling and process technology specialists
WordPress.com News 2009
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So-called 'sandfish' could help materials handling and process technology specialists A new magnetic resonance imaging procedure can detect very early breast cancer in mice, including ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a precursor to invasive cancer.
Blogrunner 2008
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With and amazing clarity, "Lizards" (Scholastic, 48 pages, $17.99) brings us right up into the exotic faces of reptiles such as Australia's frilled dragon, the scratch-resistant sandfish ("it can survive sandblasting better than steel"), and geckos in delicate shades of rose and beige.
A Good Time To Get Real Meghan Cox Gurdon 2010
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There are also a lot of those weird, semi-transparent, yellow, spotted little sandfish with cup-shaped pectoral fins, which I see they use to enable them to make their astoundingly long leaps.
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There are also a lot of those weird, semi-transparent, yellow, spotted little sandfish with cup - shaped pectoral fins, which I see they use to enable them to make their astoundingly long leaps.
Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881
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A new sand-diving robot based on the sandfish lizard has been developed by a team led by Daniel I. Goldman,
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Read more about the sandfish lizard-based robot research and see the more recent New Scientist article.
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The sandfish lizard tucks in its limbs and wiggles forward with a whole-body sinusoidal traveling wave motion.
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They found that once the sandfish is submerged, it tucks its limbs into its sides and propels itself forward by wiggling from side to side.
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A robot that can travel through loose debris takes its inspiration from the sandfish lizard, one of nature's own sand swimmers
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