ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun
: any of various long slender fishes of Syngnathus and related genera that are distinguished by a small mouth at the end of an elongate tubular snout, an angular body covered with bony plates, and no pelvic and first dorsal fins, that have the eggs hatched by the male in a long subcaudal pouch or in some cases in depressions in the skin of the abdomen, and that are nearly cosmopolitan but are especially abundant in warm seas among seaweeds