bellows fish

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssnipefish

   Broaderteleost fish

   Part ofMacrorhamphosidae

Questions about bellows fish

What does bellows fish mean?

bellows fish means "small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth".

What is another word for bellows fish?

Close synonyms include snipefish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bellows fish a common word?

bellows fish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.