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snailfish

/sneyl-fish/US // ˈsneɪlˌfɪʃ //UK // (ˈsneɪlˌfɪʃ) //

蜗牛鱼,螺蛳湾,螺蛳粉,螺蛳壳里的鱼

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural snail·fish, snail·fish·es.

    • : any of several elongate, smooth-skinned fishes of the family Liparididae, inhabiting cold seas, having the ventral fins modified to form a sucking disk.

Examples

  • For snailfish and other animals living in these meadows, xenophyophores may provide structure to an otherwise-flat habitat.

  • The new study took notes from the snailfish, engineering a similar robot with the ability to withstand tremendous pressure while swimming autonomously.

  • Gerringer, one of the researchers who first described the deep-sea snailfish in 2014, constructed a 3-D printed soft robot version of it several years later to better understand how it swims.