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Definition of Toadfishes
1. toadfish [n] - See also: toadfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toadfishes
Literary usage of Toadfishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letter of Dr. Diego Alvarez Chanca, Dated 1484 by Diego Alvarez Chanca, Augstine Marcus Fernández de Ybarra (1907)
"For this reason the habits of representatives of the two families are given for
comparison with those of the toadfishes. The behavior of a number of ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"The name Batrachus was applied by Bloch and Schneider in 1801 to the scaly
toadfishes of the tropics, which had still earlier received from Lace'pede the ..."
3. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"... are, perhaps, allied to the toadfishes. The ventral fins are jugular, the rays
i, 4 or I, 5, and between them is developed an elaborate sucking-disk, ..."
4. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of Change (1994)
"Other fishes similarly armed with venomous fin-spines include: the spiny dogfish,
family Squalidae; weever fishes, family Trachinidae; toadfishes, ..."
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