'Pipefish' definitions:
Definition of 'pipefish'
From: WordNet
noun
Fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates [syn: pipefish, needlefish]
Definition of 'Pipefish'
From: GCIDE
- Pipefish \Pipe"fish`\, n. (Zool.) Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place. [1913 Webster] Pipelayer