noun

• A fish with a snout or proboscis that resembles an elephant's trunk.

  a chimaera with a hooked process on the snout (family Callorhinchidae and genus Callorhinchus).
  another term for
  elephant-snout fish

  ‘The group is divided into two very different subclasses, which separated very early on: the Elasmobranchii (sharks, skates and rays) and the Holocephali (the chimaeras, such as the ratfish and elephant fish).’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Baleen whales, dolphins, including a long-snouted type, seals, penguins, petrels and other birds, a variety of sharks, elephant fish and many other kinds of fish have been spotted and bagged by Joseph.’
  • ‘I added a hideous looking elephant fish to my species list.’