noun
fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
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• Hypernyms: ↑spiny-finned fish, ↑acanthopterygian
• Member Holonyms: ↑Lophiidae, ↑family Lophiidae
• Part Meronyms: ↑monkfish
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun (-s)Etymology: so called from its large mouth
: angler 2
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/awl"mowth'/, n., pl. allmouths /-mowdhz', mowths'/.
angler (def. 3).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.