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LOPHIIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Lophiidae mean?
• LOPHIIDAE (noun)
The noun LOPHIIDAE has 1 sense:
1. large-headed marine fishes comprising the anglers
Familiarity information: LOPHIIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large-headed marine fishes comprising the anglers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Lophiidae; Lophiidae
Hypernyms ("Lophiidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "Lophiidae"):
genus Lophius; Lophius (type genus of family Lophiidae)
allmouth; angler; angler fish; anglerfish; goosefish; Lophius Americanus; lotte; monkfish (fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey)
Holonyms ("Lophiidae" is a member of...):
order Pediculati; Pediculati (anglers and batfishes; spiny-finned marine fishes having pectoral fins at the ends of armlike processes and a long movable spine on the dorsal fin to lure prey to the large mouth)
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