snailfish
[ sneyl-fish ]
/ ˈsneɪlˌfɪʃ /
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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.
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