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toadfish

The English word “toadfish” has 11 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Any fish of the genus Lophius.
  2. Any of the ray-finned fishes of family Batrachoididae of benthic ambush predators.
  3. Banded toadfish, of Australia (Torquigener pleurogramma).
  4. Blackspotted toadfish, of the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans (Arothron nigropunctatus).
  5. Common toadfish (or toadfish), of Australia and New Zealand (Tetractenos hamiltoni).
  6. Prickly toadfish, of Australia and New Zealand (Contusus richei).
  7. Red striped toadfish, of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (Dichotomyctere erythrotaenia, syn. Tetraodon erythrotaenia).
  8. Smooth toadfish, of Australia (Tetractenos glaber).
  9. Dark toadfish (Neophrynichthys latus).
  10. Frilled toadfish, of Macquarie Island (Ambophthalmos magnicirrus).
  11. Pale toadfish of New Zealand (Ambophthalmos angustus).

Etymology

From toad + fish, in reference to their toadlike appearance.

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