Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The sea-snipe, woodcock-fish, bellows-fish, or trumpet-fish, Centriscus (or Macrorhamphosus) scolopax: so called from its long snout, likened to a snipe's beak.
  • noun A murænoid or eel-like fish of the genus Nemichthys, as N. scolopaceus; a snipe-eel.
  • noun The garfish. Belone vulgaris: in allusion to the snipe-like extension of the jaws.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The bellows fish.
  • noun A long, slender deep-sea fish (Nemichthys scolopaceus) with a slender beak.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Either of the two species of fish of the Macroramphosus genus.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth

Etymologies

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snipe +‎ fish

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