Definition of Snailfish

1. Noun. Small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish.

Exact synonyms: Liparis Liparis, Sea Snail, Seasnail
Generic synonyms: Scorpaenoid, Scorpaenoid Fish
Group relationships: Genus Liparis, Liparis

Definition of Snailfish

1. n. See Sea snail (a).

Medical Definition of Snailfish

1. See Sea snail . Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snailfish

snaglike
snags
snail
snail's pace
snail-flower
snail bean
snail darter
snail fever
snail flower
snail mail
snailase
snailed
snaileries
snailery
snailfish (current term)
snailflower
snailier
snailiest
snailing
snailish
snaillike
snails
snailshell
snailshells
snailspace
snaily
snake's-head
snake's-tongue

Literary usage of Snailfish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"... sea poachers, and snailfish — large fins, rough scales or bony plates, and strong spines rise by degrees, then give way progressively to feeble fins, ..."

2. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"Others still, make use of sucking disks of one sort or another (as in the snailfish, the clingfish, and the goby), to cling to the under } Remora to the ..."

3. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"Others still. make use of sucking disks of one sort or another (as in the snailfish, the clingfish, and the goby), to cling to the under side of rocks, ..."

4. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"Others still, make use of sucking disks of one sort or another (as in the snailfish, the clingfish, and the goby), to cling to the under side of rocks, ..."

5. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"Others still, make use of sucking disks of one sort or another (as in the snailfish, the clingfish, and the goby), to cling to the under side of rocks, ..."

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