angler fish

Questions about angler fish

What does angler fish mean?

angler fish means "fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey".

What is another word for angler fish?

Close synonyms include goosefish, angler, anglerfish, monkfish, lotte. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is angler fish a common word?

angler fish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.