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pipe-fish

pipe-fish is the alternative form of pipefish.

Meaning of pipefish

Noun

pipefish (plural pipefishes or pipefish)

  1. A small fish of subfamily Syngnathinae in the seahorse family, having a long thin body covered with partially ossified plates, the head long, and the jaws elongated so as to form a tubular snout.

Forms of pipe-fish

pluralpipe-fishes

Questions about pipe-fish

What is pipe-fish the alternative form of?
Pipe-fish is the alternative form of pipefish.

Words near pipe-fish in the dictionary

  1. pipe-bowls
  2. pipe-dream
  3. pipe-dreamed
  4. pipe-dreaming
  5. pipe-dreams
  6. pipe-fish
  7. pipe-fishes
  8. pipe-hawk
  9. pipe-hitter
  10. pipe-hitters
  11. pipe-layer

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