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sand•fish



Pronunciation: (sand'fish"), [key]
—n.,
—pl. (esp. collectively) -fish, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) -fish•es.
1. either of two scaleless fishes of the family Trichodontidae, of the North Pacific, that live in sand or mud.
2. 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.
3. See belted sandfish.

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