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GOOSEFISH
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Irregular inflected form: goosefishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
Synonyms:
allmouth; angler; angler fish; anglerfish; goosefish; Lophius Americanus; lotte; monkfish
Classified under:
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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