Definition of anglerfish
:any of several pediculate fishes (such as the goosefishes);
especially
:monkfish
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Their finds included anglerfish, a famous example of bioluminescence.
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Alternate Routes Parasitic anglerfish aren’t the only animals that perform creative coupling.
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Evidently even anglerfish have heard that Frozen song.
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In fact, many female deep-sea anglerfishes can swallow prey twice their size, as Maclaine shows in the video below.
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First Known Use of anglerfish
1834
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