frogfish
IPA: frˈɑgfɪʃ
noun
- Any of several benthic anglerfish, of the family Antennariidae, having a frog-like mouth with a lure.
- Any of the benthic ray-finned fish of the family Batrachoididae (the sole family of order Batrachoidiformes), which are ambush predators and have a toad-like appearance.
- (archaic) Any fish of genus Lophius.
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Examples of "frogfish" in Sentences
- Many frogfish can change their color.
- Some frogfish are covered with algae or hydrozoa.
- The most common frogfish species in the est Indies.
- Frogfish have a stocky appearance, atypical of fish.
- Many public aquariums around the world keep frogfish.
- The frogfish is reported to be the fastest animal alive.
- Their unusual shape, color, and skin textures disguise frogfish.
- The frogfish will lie in a sponge and wait for a fish to swim by.
- I noticed you were the original author of the Striated frogfish article.
- By the way, will move this discussion over to the Striated frogfish talk page.
- A new frogfish has been described; Histiophryne psychedelica may be a coral mimic.
- Like other frogfish — a subset of anglerfish — H. psychedelica has leglike fins on both sides of its body.
- But it has several traits not previously known among frogfish, wrote Pietsch, of the University of Washington.
- A flat-faced frogfish with a psychedelic pattern and a "killer" carnivorous sponge are among the top 10 new species discovered in 2009.
- Sydney - A flat-faced frogfish with a psychedelic pattern and a "killer" carnivorous sponge are among the top 10 new species discovered in 2009, according to a committee of international scientists.
- Low-lying tanks allow children to see everything at their eye-level including clown fish, garden eel, frogfish, swell fish, lizards and "pacman" frogs, which resemble the classic '80s video-game character Pac-Man.
- Stay at Lembeh Resort lembehresort.com, grab your underwater camera and follow your dive master as he points out the weird and the wonderful: frogfish, ornate ghost pipefish, flying gurnards and devil scorpionfish.
- I lack the patience to carefully examine a fan coral for pygmy seahorses no bigger than my little fingernail, but there's enough of the big and dramatic to keep me astonished: the orb-like shimmering jellyfish, the wrasses, turtles and mantas, the epaulette sharks that "walk" on their fins, the unworldly-appearing frogfish or the schools of silver barracuda.
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