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sand·fish  (sndfsh)

n. pl. sandfish or sand·fish·es

1. Any of various marine fishes that live or burrow in sandy or muddy bottoms, as a scaleless fish of the family Trichodontidae of the northern Pacific.

2. A slender fish (Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus) of the Pacific and Indian oceans, characterized by an angular snout. Also called beaked salmon.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sandfish - either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes family Trichodontidae, Trichodontidae - two species of elongate compressed scaleless large-eyed fishes that live in sand or mud
	2.	sandfish - fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand beaked salmon, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus malacopterygian, soft-finned fish - any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii genus Gonorhynchus, Gonorhynchus - slender cylindrical marine fishes lacking air bladders and teeth