anglerfish
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Anglerfish Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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anglerfish
Noun
1. fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
(synonym) goosefish, angler, angler fish, monkfish, lotte, allmouth, Lophius Americanus
(hypernym) spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian
(member-holonym) Lophiidae, family Lophiidae
(part-meronym) monkfish
Noun
1. fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
(synonym) goosefish, angler, angler fish, monkfish, lotte, allmouth, Lophius Americanus
(hypernym) spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian
(member-holonym) Lophiidae, family Lophiidae
(part-meronym) monkfish
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anglerfish
anglerfish
n : fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey [syn: goosefish, angler, angler fish, monkfish, lotte, allmouth, lophius americanus]
anglerfish
n : fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey [syn: goosefish, angler, angler fish, monkfish, lotte, allmouth, lophius americanus]
Anglerfish Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Anglerfish
Anglerfish are bony fish in the order Lophiiformes, named for their characteristic mode of predation, wherein a fleshy growth from the fish's head (the esca) acts as a lure; this is considered analogous to angling.
Anglerfish are both pelagic and benthic fishes of the abyss (e.g. Ceratiidae) and the continental shelf (e.g. the frogfishes Antennariidae and the monkfish/goosefish Lophiidae) respectively. They occur worldwide. Pelagic forms are most laterally compressed whereas the benthic forms are often extremely dorse-ventrally compressed (depressed) often with large upward pointing mouths.
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