Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various bottom-dwelling fishes of the family Antennariidae, characteristically having a prickly or warty globose body, grasping pectoral fins, and a modified dorsal fin spine that serves as a lure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An English name of the angler, Lophius piscatorius: same as
fishingfrog . Seeangler . - noun A fish of the family Antennariidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
angler , n., 2. - noun An oceanic fish of the genus Antennarius or Pterophrynoides; -- called also mousefish and toadfish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
benthic anglerfish , of the family Antennariidae, having a frog-like mouth with alure
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word frogfish.
Examples
-
A new frogfish has been described; Histiophryne psychedelica may be a coral mimic.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
-
But it has several traits not previously known among frogfish, wrote Pietsch, of the University of Washington.
Boing Boing 2009
-
A new frogfish has been described; Histiophryne psychedelica may be a coral mimic.
Psychedelic Frogfish 2009
-
Like other frogfish — a subset of anglerfish — H. psychedelica has leglike fins on both sides of its body.
Boing Boing 2009
-
I lack the patience to carefully examine a fan coral for pygmy seahorses no bigger than my little fingernail, but there's enough of the big and dramatic to keep me astonished: the orb-like shimmering jellyfish, the wrasses, turtles and mantas, the epaulette sharks that "walk" on their fins, the unworldly-appearing frogfish or the schools of silver barracuda.
Dive Time 2009
-
Low-lying tanks allow children to see everything at their eye-level including clown fish, garden eel, frogfish, swell fish, lizards and "pacman" frogs, which resemble the classic '80s video-game character Pac-Man.
Finding Nemo 2008
-
Stay at Lembeh Resort lembehresort.com, grab your underwater camera and follow your dive master as he points out the weird and the wonderful: frogfish, ornate ghost pipefish, flying gurnards and devil scorpionfish.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Darryl Leniuk 2011
-
Stay at Lembeh Resort lembehresort.com, grab your underwater camera and follow your dive master as he points out the weird and the wonderful: frogfish, ornate ghost pipefish, flying gurnards and devil scorpionfish.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Darryl Leniuk 2011
-
Sydney - A flat-faced frogfish with a psychedelic pattern and a "killer" carnivorous sponge are among the top 10 new species discovered in 2009, according to a committee of international scientists.
News24 Top Stories 2010
-
A flat-faced frogfish with a psychedelic pattern and a "killer" carnivorous sponge are among the top 10 new species discovered in 2009.
News24 Top Stories 2010
frogapplause commented on the word frogfish
Posers!
September 26, 2011