snipe-fishn.
1. Any fish of the genus Centriscus; esp. the trumpet-fish, bellows-fish, or sea-snipe, C. scolopax.
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1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 123 Scolopax,..the Snipe-fish.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. v. i. 101 The figure of his Bill, which is an entire Pipe, shaped almost like that of the Snipe-Fish.
1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes I. 302 Centriscus scolopax, Snipe~fish.
1867 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 568/1 Trumpet-fish, or Snipe-fish (Centriscus), a genus of fishes..remarkable for the elongated and tubular snout.
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 250 The trumpet, bellows-fish, woodcock or snipe-fish.
2. The snipe-eel ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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