toadfish

IPA: tˈoʊdfɪʃ

Any fish thought to resemble a toad
Any of the ray-finned fishes of family Batrachoididae of benthic ambush predators.
Certain species in family Tetraodontidae
banded toadfish, of Australia (Torquigener pleurogramma)
blackspotted toadfish, of the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans (Arothron nigropunctatus)
common toadfish (or toadfish), of Australia and New Zealand (Tetractenos hamiltoni)
prickly toadfish, of Australia and New Zealand (Contusus richei)
red striped toadfish, of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (Dichotomyctere erythrotaenia, syn. Tetraodon erythrotaenia)
smooth toadfish, of Australia (Tetractenos glaber)
Certain species in family Psychrolutidae
dark toadfish (Neophrynichthys latus)
frilled toadfish, of Macquarie Island (Ambophthalmos magnicirrus)
pale toadfish of New Zealand (Ambophthalmos angustus)

Examples of "toadfish" in Sentences

We called them "sallygrowlers"--we thought toadfish was the official name.
It was a reasonably large toadfish, as far as toadfish go, and it was ugly and fearsome and it growled.
Clams and skates and croakers and jellyfish and fluke and toadfish and anything else with gills surrounded by water are all wild.
Mr. Jackson turned to turtles only when a toadfish failed to suit an experiment he'd designed to measure its metabolic rate in the absence of oxygen.
Tetrodotoxin is a powerful neurotoxin found in the skin, liver, ovary, intestine and muscle of the pufferfish species (globefish, blowfish, balloon fish, toadfish).
What it is: One of a family of marine or estuarine fish known as Tetraodontidae whichincludesmany familiar species variously called puffers, puffer fish, balloonfish, blowfish, bubblefish, globefish, swellfish and toadfish.
" "Nay," declared a dumpy figure with big ears and the frenzied face of a maniacal toadfish, "we must work together to defeat the likes of the late and unlamented Susnam Evyndd, may his pure and noble soul lie corrupted and befouled forever.