What is "pipefish"

Pipefish \Pipe"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.

n. a small fish from the seahorse family

1. n. fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates [syn: needlefish]

2. [also: pipefishes (pl)]

Pipefishes or pipe-fishes (Syngnathinae) are a subfamily of small fishes, which, together with the seahorses and seadragons, form the family Syngnathidae.