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Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
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anglerfish
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n. fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey [syn: goosefish , angler , angler fish , monkfish , lotte , allmouth , Lophius Americanus ]
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Anglerfishes are fish of the teleost order Lophiiformes or Pediculati . They are bony fish named for their characteristic mode of predation , in which a fleshy growth from the fish's head (the esca or illicium) acts as a lure . Some anglerfish are also ...
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n. Any fish of the bony fish order Lophiiformes. These fish use an outgrowth that can be wiggled so as to resemble a prey animal to lure and catch their prey.
Usage examples of anglerfish.
There were common things down there, like little toothless sharks with catlike eyes, and rare things, like anglerfish, which lured their prey with bioluminescent dorsal stalks and ate it with needle teeth that seemed to be made of crystal.
In the deep seas, such bathypelagic monsters as anglerfish were slow moving, with a metabolic rate as low as one percent of fish living near the surface.
The sound was not just a ripple, but a palpability, drawing in, as if the Moot had become a huge maw, a wyrm anglerfish draw ing every particle in.