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Centriscus scolopax
Bellows fish Bel"lows fish` (Zo["o]l.) A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.
Scolopax rusticola
Woodcock Wood"cock`, n. [AS. wuducoc.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds. Note: The most important species are the European (Scolopax rusticola) and the American woodcock (Philohela minor), which agree very closely in appearance and habits. 2. Fig.: A simpleton. [Obs.] If I loved you not, I would laugh at you, and see you Run your neck into the noose, and cry, ``A woodcock!' --Beau. & Fl. Little woodcock. (a) The common American snipe. (b) The European snipe. Sea woodcock fish, the bellows fish. Woodcock owl, the short-eared owl (Asio brachyotus). Woodcock shell, the shell of certain mollusks of the genus Murex, having a very long canal, with or without spines. Woodcock snipe. See under Snipe.

Meaning of Scolopax from wikipedia

- seven or eight very similar living species of sandpipers in the genus Scolopax. The genus name is Latin for a snipe or wood****, and until around 1800...
- The American wood**** (Scolopax minor), sometimes colloquially referred to as the timberdoodle, mudbat, bogsucker, night partridge, or Labrador twister...
- The Eurasian wood**** (Scolopax rusticola) is a medium-small wading bird found in temperate and subarctic Eurasia. It has cryptic camouflage to suit its...
- Ophrys scolopax, known as the wood**** bee-orchid or wood**** orchid, is a species of terrestrial orchid found around the Mediterranean and the Middle...
- Neortholomus scolopax is a species of seed bugs in the family Lygaeidae. It is found in Central America and North America. "Neortholomus scolopax Species Information"...
- Scolopax anthonyi is a prehistoric species of wood**** in the family Scolopacidae that was once endemic to the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. Its fossil...
- Nodulotrophon scolopax is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Nodulotrophon scolopax (Watson...
- 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Scolopax limosa. It is now placed with three other godwits in the genus Limosa that...
- Scolopax brachycarpa, is an extinct species of wood**** in the family Scolopacidae that was endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. It belonged...
- The longspine snipefish (Macroramphosus scolopax), is a snipefish of the genus Macroramphosus, also known by various names such as bellowfish, common bellowsfish...