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Meanings of
pipefish
in English
Russian
syngnathinae
Portuguese
syngnathinae
Spanish
syngnathinae
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Subfamily of fishes.
syngnathinae
Related terms
taxon
Russian
syngnathinae
Portuguese
peixe-cachimbo
Spanish
pez pipa
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Fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates.
needlefish
Portuguese
peixe-cachimbo
Synonyms
Examples for "
needlefish
"
needlefish
Examples for "
needlefish
"
1
A school of
needlefish
,
bright as new nickels, flashed by.
Usage of
pipefish
in English
1
For sperm counts in the seaweed
pipefish
,
see Watanabe et al.
2
But males in one group are-seahorses and their close cousins,
pipefish
.
3
A visual outline of the
pipefish
experiment sequence.
4
Just like peacocks, female
pipefish
have evolved bright, colourful markings as a result of sexual selection.
5
For instance, in certain species of
pipefish
the female actively courts the male, before "gluing" her eggs to her chosen mate.
6
But one that has is the seaweed
pipefish
,
a species common in seagrass beds around Japan-andsure enough, his sperm count is vanishingly low.
7
If you are a small female
pipefish
looking for a mate, both pre- and post-copulatory factors set the odds against you having a successful brood.
8
(
Pipefish
look like seahorses that have been straightened and streamlined.)
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Frequent collocations
female pipefish
seaweed pipefish
Translations for
pipefish
Russian
syngnathinae
Portuguese
syngnathinae
peixe-cachimbo
Spanish
syngnathinae
pez pipa
Pipefish
through the time