snipefish (snipfish)

1. The sea-snipe, woodcock-fish, bellows-fish, or trumpet-fish, Snipe-fish (Centriscus scolopax). Centriscus (or Macrorhamphosus ) scolopax: so called from its long snout, likened to a snipe's beak.-2. A murænoid or eel-like fish of the genus Nemichthys, as N. scolopaceus; a snipeeel.-3. The garfish, Belone vulgar is: in allusion to the snipe-like extension of the jaws. [Prov. Eng.]