Solenichthyes

noun

bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout

• Syn: ↑order Solenichthyes

• Hypernyms: ↑animal order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Teleostei, ↑subclass Teleostei

• Member Meronyms:

↑Fistulariidae, ↑family Fistulariidae, ↑Gasterosteidae, ↑family Gasterosteidae, ↑Syngnathidae, ↑family Syngnathidae, ↑Macrorhamphosidae, ↑family Macrorhamphosidae, ↑Centriscidae, ↑family Centriscidae, ↑Aulostomidae, ↑family Aulostomidae

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\\ˌsōləˈnikthēˌēz\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from solen- + Greek ichthyes, plural of ichthys fish — more at ichthus

: a small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes (as the bellows fishes, shrimpfishes, and cornetfishes) that are of varied and sometimes bizarre form but all have the small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout — compare thoracostei