sandfish
Americannoun
PLURAL
sandfish,PLURAL
sandfishes-
either of two scaleless fishes of the family Trichodontidae, of the North Pacific Ocean, that live in sand or mud.
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Also called beaked salmon. a fish, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus, inhabiting the sandy areas of the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, having an angular snout with which it burrows into the sand.
Etymology
Origin of sandfish
Example Sentences
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They are believed to be North Korean fishing boats, many of which will have been out searching for king crab, squid and sandfish at this time of year.
From BBC
Dr. Goldman and his colleagues had done a lot of research on a lizard called the sandfish.
From New York Times
He has spent a lot of time studying the sandfish, “a little lizard that swims in sand.”
From New York Times
“The biological inspiration for our sand-swimming robot is the sandfish lizard, which inhabits the Sahara desert in Africa and rapidly buries into and swims within sand,” explained Goldman.
From US News
There are also a lot of those weird, semi-transparent, yellow, spotted little sandfish with cup-shaped pectoral fins, which I see they use to enable them to make their astoundingly long leaps.
From Project Gutenberg
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