sandfish

American  

[sand-fish] / ˈsændˌfɪʃ /

noun

plural

sandfish,

plural

sandfishes

1. either of two scaleless fishes of the family Trichodontidae, of the North Pacific Ocean, that live in sand or mud.

2. Also called beaked salmon.  a fish, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus, inhabiting the sandy areas of the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, having an angular snout with which it burrows into the sand.

3. belted sandfish.

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Etymology

Origin of sandfish

First recorded in 1895–1900; sand + fish

Example Sentences

Studying sandfish, water striders and bees probably won’t transform the way that humans travel the world, but it may revolutionize the movements of our machines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2018

The sandfish, a lizard about the size of a hand, can virtually dive and swim through it, whipping and churning its legs to take advantage of sand’s fluid or solid properties.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2018

They are believed to be North Korean fishing boats, many of which will have been out searching for king crab, squid and sandfish at this time of year.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2015

There are also a lot of those weird, semi-transparent, yellow, spotted little sandfish with cup-shaped pectoral fins, which I see they use to enable them to make their astoundingly long leaps. 

From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.