pipefish

English

Etymology

From pipe +‎ fish.

Noun

pipefish (plural pipefishes or pipefish)

1. A small fish of subfamily Syngnathinae in the seahorse family, having a long thin body covered with partially ossified plates, the head long, and the jaws elongated so as to form a tubular snout.

Alternative forms

• pipe-fish

Derived terms

• ghost pipefish (Solenostomus spp.)
• orange pipefish (Maroubra yasudai)
• Ball's pipefish

Translations

small fish

• Asturian: caballu de mar (ast), culiebra de mar (ast), serpentina (ast)
• Bulgarian: морска игла f (morska igla)
• Catalan: agulleta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: merineula (fi)
• French: syngnathe (fr) m
• German: Seenadel f
• Ingrian: tuulenneegla
• Irish: snáthaid mhara f
• Italian: pesce pipa m
• Korean: 실고기 (silgogi)
• Norman: longnez m (Jersey)
• Portuguese: peixe-cachimbo m
• Russian: морска́я игла́ f (morskája iglá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: šilo (sh) n

• Spanish: pez aguja m
• Turkish: deniziğnesi (tr)

Further reading

• pipefish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia