Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sandfish

2 senses of sandfish

Sense 1
sandfish -- (either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand)
       => percoid fish, percoid, percoidean -- (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Sense 2
beaked salmon, sandfish, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus -- (fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand)
       => soft-finned fish, malacopterygian -- (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)