noun
- plural of pipefish; slender marine fish with elongated snouts and bodies covered in bony plates, related to seahorses
Usage: marine biology
Examples
- The aquarium’s seahorse exhibit also featured several species of pipefishes.
- Pipefishes are often found hiding among seagrass beds in shallow coastal waters.
- Like seahorses, male pipefishes carry the eggs until they hatch.
- The diver spotted colorful pipefishes camouflaged among the coral branches.
- Pipefishes use their tube-like snouts to suck up small crustaceans and plankton.
- Several pipefishes swam vertically among the kelp fronds, mimicking the swaying plants.