pipefish

Plural: pipefish, pipefishes

Noun

• A slender, elongated marine fish related to seahorses.
• fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates
• A small fish of subfamily Syngnathinae in the seahorse family, having a long thin body covered with partially ossified plates, the head long, and the jaws elongated so as to form a tubular snout.

Examples

• He managed to get PIPEFISH onto a triple-word score, netting him many points.

Synonyms

needlefish