sandfish

English Thesaurus

1. fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	malacopterygian, soft-finned fish,
definition	:	any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus gonorhynchus, gonorhynchus,
definition	:	slender cylindrical marine fishes lacking air bladders and teeth (noun.animal)

2. either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	percoid, percoid fish, percoidean,
definition	:	any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family trichodontidae, trichodontidae,
definition	:	two species of elongate compressed scaleless large-eyed fishes that live in sand or mud (noun.animal)