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frogfish

[ UK /fɹˈɒɡfɪʃ/ ]
NOUN
  1. fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout

How To Use frogfish In A Sentence

  • 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
  • The frogfish uses its stalked pectoral fins and its pelvic fins to slowly ‘walk’ across the bottom.
  • But it has several traits not previously known among frogfish, wrote Pietsch, of the University of Washington. Boing Boing
  • Like frogfishes, these grotesque-looking fishes are anglers that use a modified dorsal spine extending just above the mouth to lure prey.
  • A male frogfish courts a mature female by spreading all of his fins, jerking his body, and nibbling her as she swaggers across the ocean floor.
  • The frogfishes have developed significant jaw protrusion.
  • When a fish is within striking distance, the frogfish jumps forward, opening its large mouth and engulfing its prey.
  • Like other frogfish — a subset of anglerfish — H. psychedelica has leglike fins on both sides of its body. Boing Boing
  • Resting on the sand are stingrays, electric rays, frogfish and the docile Port Jackson shark.
  • Photo time with the frogfishes was short-lived as I was disrupted by the cricket-chirping signal from our divemaster.
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