sandfish Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand
  2. noun fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand
    beaked salmon; Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus.

WordNet


Sand"fish` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America (Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand.

Webster 1913