sandfish
1. either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand • Hypernyms: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean • Member Holonyms: Trichodontidae, family Trichodontidae 2. fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand • Syn: beaked salmon, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus • Hypernyms: soft-finned fish, malacopterygian • Member Holonyms: Gonorhynchus, genus Gonorhynchus
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