| Noun | 1. | family Syngnathidae - pipefishes fish family - any of various families of fish order Solenichthyes, Solenichthyes - bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout pipefish, needlefish - fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates genus Syngnathus, Syngnathus - type genus of the family Syngnathidae Cosmocampus, genus Cosmocampus - a genus of fish in the family Syngnathidae genus Hippocampus, Hippocampus - seahorses |