snailfish

[ sneyl-fish ]

noun,plural (especially collectively) snail·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) snail·fish·es.
  1. any of several elongate, smooth-skinned fishes of the family Liparididae, inhabiting cold seas, having the ventral fins modified to form a sucking disk.

Origin of snailfish

1
First recorded in 1830–40; snail + fish

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British Dictionary definitions for snailfish

snailfish

/ (ˈsneɪlˌfɪʃ) /


nounplural -fish or -fishes
  1. another name for sea snail

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