ANGLERFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anglerfish mean? 

• ANGLERFISH (noun)
  The noun ANGLERFISH has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ANGLERFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGLERFISH (noun)

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 ("anglerfish" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "anglerfish"):

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

Holonyms ("anglerfish" is a member of...):

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