snailfish

[ sneyl-fish ]

noun,plural (especially collectively) snail·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) snail·fish·es.

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

First recorded in 1830–40; snail + fish

Words Nearby snailfish

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How to use snailfish in a sentence

For snailfish and other animals living in these meadows, xenophyophores may provide structure to an otherwise-flat habitat.
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The new study took notes from the snailfish, engineering a similar robot with the ability to withstand tremendous pressure while swimming autonomously.
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Gerringer, one of the researchers who first described the deep-sea snailfish in 2014, constructed a 3-D printed soft robot version of it several years later to better understand how it swims.
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British Dictionary definitions for snailfish

snailfish

/ (ˈsneɪlˌfɪʃ) /

nounplural -fish or -fishes

another name for sea snail

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