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Definition of Pipefishes
1. pipefish [n] - See also: pipefish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pipefishes
Literary usage of Pipefishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural Emirates: Wildlife and Environment of the United Arab Emirates by Peter Vine (1996)
"SYNGNATHIDAE pipefishes AND SEAHORSES pipefishes and seahorses are small fishes
whose bodies are encased in bony rings. Distantly related to the ..."
2. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"All the pipefishes are carnivorous in their diet; and it is stated that in those
species ... The pipefishes swim about slowly in a very peculiar manner, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... while in the latter the fin is absent and the tail prehensile. Several genera
of pipefishes occur in American waters, the principal one being ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"As to this, it may be urged that it is not clear that any close affinity exists
between Lampris and the others (sticklebacks, pipefishes, sea horses and sea ..."