Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several anglerfishes of the genus Lophius, such as L. americanus of North American Atlantic waters. Also called monkfish.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The fishing-frog or angler, Lophius piscatorius.
Wiktionary
- n. anglerfish
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) See angler.
WordNet 3.0
- n. fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
Etymologies
- goose + fish (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Monkfish, also called lotte, angler, allmouth, bellyfish, and goosefish, has a mild flavor and a texture similar to lobster.”
“It is the lake cusk or freshwater ling and could be utilized on our tables; but the wolffish, the rock blenny, the angler or goosefish, the skate, and twenty other kinds, are of great value as food.”
“They sometimes call it a goosefish, because it attacks wild geese, but the right name is fishing-frog or angler.”
“Neptune, his white teeth flashing when he laughed, a pitchfork in his hands with which to spear the goosefish as they turned up in the net, and throw them back into the sea.”
“And along the U.S. Atlantic Coast, fishermen used to toss back a toad-colored fish that looked like it was 30 percent mouth and 50 percent stomach: the goosefish.”
“5 The anglerfish or goosefish lives on the ocean floor and uses a fleshy dorsal to attract smaller fish, which it then eats in one gulp.”
“But for these creatures — slimeheads, goosefish, rock crabs, Patagonian toothfish, whore’s eggs — it was a curse.”
slimeheads, goosefish, rock crabs, whore’s eggs | clusterflock
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘goosefish’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
wetdreamablet, agnathan, ahi, ahuru, ahuruhuru, albacore, albicore, alec, alewife, allice, allis, amberjack and 840 more...
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PECH - marine species
African cuttlefish, Alaska plaice, Alaska pollock, Alaska pollack, walleye pollock, alewife, gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, allis shad, American angler, goosefish and 994 more...
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Animal Identity Crisis
Creatures that are described in terms of other animals. Usual rules apply: look at the entries and you'll get the hang of it :-) I could say 'no madeupicals' but, jeeperz, I'd have to put myself on...
squirrel fish, birddog, whale shark, leopard seal, rhinoceros beetle, parrotfish, lion tamarin, bumblebee bat, cow sharks, tiger moth, dogfish, smoothhound shark and 140 more...
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Bird Fish
List of fishes whose names contain the name of a bird, such as parrotfish, sea robin, or snipe eel.
parrotfish, sea robin, snipe eel, hawkfish, duckbill, duckbilled buntingi, cardinalfish, armored searobin, goosefish, canary rockfish, cuckoo wrasse, eagle ray and 60 more...
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Underwaterritory
When you're underwater, what do you see or experience? Let's dive...
(Here's a cute little related list called Fishful Thinking...)underwater, curglaff, submarine, underwater habitat, diving bell, paravane, bottom trawling, sediment traps, torpedo, mines, shipwreck, sonar and 214 more...
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Names of fish that end in -fish.
paddlefish, goldfish, catfish, crayfish, swordfish, whitefish, monkfish, goosefish, anglerfish, jellyfish, lungfish, blackfish and 18 more...
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Fishful thinking
"It was then that Delirium noticed that she had absent-mindedly transformed into a hundred and eleven perfect, tiny multicolored fish."
Assortment of fishy or somehow entertaining fish...piscary, fishery, hatchery, pisces, piscine, piscation, piscatorial, pescetarian, piscivorous, expiscate, expiscatory, fishmonger and 81 more...
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