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    GOOSEFISH

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    Irregular inflected form: goosefishes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    allmouth; angler; angler fish; anglerfish; goosefish; Lophius Americanus; lotte; monkfish

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("goosefish" is a kind of...):

    acanthopterygian; spiny-finned fish (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)

    Meronyms (parts of "goosefish"):

    monkfish (flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America)

    Holonyms ("goosefish" is a member of...):

    family Lophiidae; Lophiidae (large-headed marine fishes comprising the anglers)

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