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noun
Any of genus Gonorynchus (also called beaked sandfishes), long, thin ray-finned fishes (family Gonorychidae)
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noun
Any of several marine fishes that burrow into sandy seabeds
in Trichodontidae, a family of perch-like fish
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Any of several marine fishes that burrow into sandy seabeds
of species Awaous tajasica, usually sand fish, a species of goby fish (family Gobiidae)
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Any of several marine fishes that burrow into sandy seabeds
of species Malacanthus plumieri (sand tilefish, family Malacanthidae)
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Any of several marine fishes that burrow into sandy seabeds
of species Diplectrum formosum (sand perch, family Serranidae)
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noun
Other animals that notably burrow in sand:
sandfish skink (Scincus scincus), a land-dwelling lizard that swims in sand
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Other animals that notably burrow in sand:
a sea cucumber of species Holothuria scabra or Thelenota ananas.
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fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: beaked salmon, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus
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Broader terms: soft-finned fish, malacopterygian
noun
either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand
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Broader terms: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
History
From sand + fish.
