angler fish
1angler fish — noun fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey • Syn: ↑goosefish, ↑angler, ↑anglerfish, ↑monkfish, ↑lotte, ↑allmouth, ↑Lophius Americanus • Derivationally related forms …
2Krøyer's deep sea angler fish — Female with a parasitic male, preparation at the Museum of Zoologie in Sankt Petersburg Sci …
3angler — n. 1 a person who fishes with a hook and line. 2 = angler fish. Phrases and idioms: angler fish any of various fishes that prey upon small fish, attracting them by filaments arising from the dorsal fin: also called frog fish (see FROG(1)) …
4angler — noun a) A person who fishes with a hook and line. A throng of anglers lined the trout stream on opening day of trout season. b) An angler fish. The angler lured a smaller fish into reach with the appendage on its head. Syn …
5Fish Lake (Jackson County, Oregon) — Fish Lake Fish Lake mit Mount McLoughlin im Hintergrund Geographische Lage Jackson County, Oregon, USA Abfluss …
6angler — [aŋ′glər] n. [< ANGLE2] 1. a fisherman who uses hook and line 2. a person who schemes and uses tricks to get something 3. any of an order (Lophiiformes) of bony fishes that feed on other fish, attracting them by means of a movable lure that… …
7fish — vb Fish, angle mean to attempt to catch fish. Fish implies the use of some apparatus and suggests nothing about the reason; angle, which is chiefly literary except in the derivative angler, implies the use of hook, bait, line, and rod and sport… …
8Angler — An gler, n. 1. One who angles. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo[ o]l.) A fish ({Lophius piscatorius}), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice …
9fish-creel — fishˈ creel noun 1. An angler s basket 2. A fishwife s basket • • • Main Entry: ↑fish …
10fish quotations — an arbitrary selection follows and also includes proverbs, rhymes, fragments of show tunes, and ditties (as Q lacks piscine entries). Some other proverbs appear in the letter files: 1 Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and… …
