Sandfish

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sandfish \Sand"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
     A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America
     ({Trichodon trichodon}) which buries itself in the sand.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  sandfish
       n 1: either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern
            Pacific that burrow into sand
       2: fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans
          having an angular snout for burrowing into sand [syn: {beaked
          salmon}, {Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus}]