cornetfish
noun
Definition of cornetfish
: any of several slender elongated fishes (family Fistulariidae) of tropical seas having an elongated tubular snout and the scales replaced by bony plates —called also flutemouth
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Origin and Etymology of cornetfish
so called from the long snout
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