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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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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.
The new study took notes from the snailfish, engineering a similar robot with the ability to withstand tremendous pressure while swimming autonomously.
This Soft Robot Stingray Just Explored the Deepest Point in the Ocean|Shelly Fan|March 9, 2021|Singularity HubÂGerringer, 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.
This soft robot withstands crushing pressures at the ocean’s greatest depths|Carolyn Gramling|March 3, 2021|Science News
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