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ANGLER FISH

Pronunciation (US):

• ANGLER FISH (noun)
The noun ANGLER FISH has 1 sense:

1. fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey

Familiarity information: ANGLER FISH used as a noun is very rare.

• ANGLER FISH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

allmouth; angler fish; anglerfish; goosefish; Lophius Americanus; lotte; monkfish; angler

Hypernyms ("angler fish" is a kind of...):

acanthopterygian; spiny-finned fish (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)

Meronyms (parts of "angler fish"):

monkfish (flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America)

Holonyms ("angler fish" is a member of...):

family Lophiidae; Lophiidae (large-headed marine fishes comprising the anglers)

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