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ALLMOUTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does allmouth mean?
• ALLMOUTH (noun)
The noun ALLMOUTH has 1 sense:
1. fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
Familiarity information: ALLMOUTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
allmouth; angler; angler fish; anglerfish; goosefish; Lophius Americanus; lotte; monkfish
Hypernyms ("allmouth" is a kind of...):
acanthopterygian; spiny-finned fish (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)
Meronyms (parts of "allmouth"):
monkfish (flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America)
Holonyms ("allmouth" is a member of...):
family Lophiidae; Lophiidae (large-headed marine fishes comprising the anglers)
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