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

• Large-mouthed marine denizen

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An anglerfish of the family Lophiidae.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Angler \An"gler\, n. One who angles. (Zo["o]l.) A fish ( Lophius piscatorius ), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Goosefish or monkfish , are anglerfishes in the family Lophiidae found in the Arctic , Atlantic , Indian , and Pacific Oceans , where they live on sandy and muddy bottoms of the continental shelf and continental slope , at depths in excess of . Like most ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey [syn: angler , anglerfish , angler fish , monkfish , lotte , allmouth , Lophius Americanus ] [also: goosefishes (pl)]