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Definition of Bellows fish

1. Noun. Small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth.

Medical Definition of Bellows fish

1. A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows. Synonym: trumpet fish, and snipe fish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Bellows fish

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

1. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1878)
"SEA SNIPE : see bellows fish, and PIPE FISH, XIII. 537, 1 a. Seasoning, of wood, XVI. 704, 1 a. SEASONS, XIV. 741 (ill., 742). Astronomical length of, XVI. ..."

2. Fishes of Australia: A Popular and Systematic Guide to the Study of the by David George Stead (1906)
"LITTLE BELLOWS-FISH ... Another and a/ smaller one which is found on our coast is the "Little Bellows-Fish" ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... most unexpected and whose known distribution is thus extended in a most interesting direction. The fish in question is the snipe-fish or bellows-fish, ..."

4. Seaside and Wayside by Julia McNair Wright (1901)
"The bellows-fish gets its name from a nose shaped almost exactly like a bellows. One kind of sturgeon is called the shovel-fish, because its head is shaped ..."

5. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1846)
"The sting-ray, the skaite, and the goose fish, or monk, or fishing frog, are common.—The puff fish, or swell fish, or bellows fish, is a cartilaginous fish. ..."

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