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snailfish
[ sneyl-fish ]
noun
, plural (especially collectively) snail·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) snail·fish·es.
- any of several elongate, smooth-skinned fishes of the family Liparididae, inhabiting cold seas, having the ventral fins modified to form a sucking disk.
snailfish
/ ˈsneɪlˌfɪʃ /
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Origin of snailfish1
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Example Sentences
For snailfish and other animals living in these meadows, xenophyophores may provide structure to an otherwise-flat habitat.
From Nautilus
The new study took notes from the snailfish, engineering a similar robot with the ability to withstand tremendous pressure while swimming autonomously.
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Gerringer, one of the researchers who first described the deep-sea snailfish in 2014, constructed a 3-D printed soft robot version of it several years later to better understand how it swims.
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