ˈsnipe-fish
[snipe n.]
1. Any fish of the genus Centriscus; esp. the trumpet-fish, bellows-fish, or sea-snipe, C. scolopax.
| 1668 Charleton Onomast. 123 Scolopax,..the Snipe-fish. 1681 Grew Musæum i. v. i. 101 The figure of his Bill, which is an entire Pipe, shaped almost like that of the Snipe-Fish. 1836 Yarrell Brit. Fishes I. 302 Centriscus scolopax, Snipe⁓fish. 1867 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 568/1 Trumpet-fish, or Snipe-fish (Centriscus), a genus of fishes..remarkable for the elongated and tubular snout. 1881 Day Fishes Gt. Brit. I. 250 The trumpet, bellows-fish, woodcock or snipe-fish. |
2. The snipe-eel (Cent. Dict. 1891).