flashlight fish

1. 1.

   fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye

   SynonymsPhotoblepharon palpebratus

   Broaderspiny-finned fish
2. 2.

   fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico

   Synonymsanomalops

   Broaderspiny-finned fish

   Part ofgenus Anomalops

Questions about flashlight fish

What does flashlight fish mean?

flashlight fish means "fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for flashlight fish?

Close synonyms include Photoblepharon palpebratus, anomalops. 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 flashlight fish a common word?

flashlight 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.