pipefish Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates
    needlefish.

WordNet

Pipe"fish` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) 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.

Webster 1913