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ಅಲರ್ ನಿಘಂಟು (ವಿ. ಕೃಷ್ಣ)

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   noun

   any of a genus (Hippocampus) of small, semitropical, marine bony fishes of the same family (Syngnathidae order Gasterosteiformes) as the pipefishes, having a slender prehensile tail, plated body, and a head and foreparts somewhat suggestive of those of a horse, and the male of which incubates the eggs in a pouch in his abdomen; a sea horse.