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What is "angler fish"

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angler fish

n. (alternative spelling of anglerfish English)

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angler fish

n. fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey [syn: goosefish, angler, anglerfish, monkfish, lotte, allmouth, Lophius Americanus]

Usage examples of "angler fish".

Now and then a flicker of small jellyfish flew past, and occasionally an angler fish or a big-mouthed gulper eel.

Luminescent angler fish and eels and elaborately shaped jellyfish writhed through the blackness.