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Definition of Snailfish
1. Noun. Small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish.
Generic synonyms: Scorpaenoid, Scorpaenoid Fish
Group relationships: Genus Liparis, Liparis
Definition of Snailfish
1. n. See Sea snail
Medical Definition of Snailfish
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Snailfish
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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