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Definition of Angler fish
1. Noun. Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey.
Group relationships: Family Lophiidae, Lophiidae
Generic synonyms: Acanthopterygian, Spiny-finned Fish
Terms within: Monkfish
Derivative terms: Angle
Definition of Angler fish
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of anglerfish) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Angler Fish
Literary usage of Angler fish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishes of Australia: A Popular and Systematic Guide to the Study of the by David George Stead (1906)
"The food of the Striped Angler-Fish consists principally of active little Shrimps
and Prawns—though small fishes are also occasionally taken. ..."
2. The Health Exhibition Literature (1884)
"The Angler-fish is to be found round our coast in rather small quantities.
It has very little power of locomotion, and therefore adopts other methods by ..."
3. The Romance of the Animal World: Interesting Descriptions of the Strange by Edmund Selous (1905)
"... CHAPTER XI AQUATIC ARCHERY THE ANGLER-FISH AND [THE CUTTLEFISH INSECT ARTILLERY
EELS THAT GIVE ELECTRIC SHOCKS. IN the ant-lion that we have just been ..."
4. Nature's teachings: human invention anticipated by nature by John George Wood (1877)
"The Angler-fish.—" Playing " a Fish.—The Nemertea and its Mode of Feeding.—Mr.
Kingsley's Account of it.—Power of Elongation and Contraction. ..."
5. Lectures on the Darwinian Theory by Arthur Milnes Marshall (1894)
"ALLURING RESEMBLANCES. These attract or entice the approach of prey. Lophius
piscatorius, the angler-fish, which conceals itself in the mud at the bottom of ..."
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