toadfishes
toadfishes is the plural of toadfish.
Meaning of toadfish
Noun
toadfish (countable and uncountable, plural toadfish or toadfishes)
- Any fish of the genus Lophius.
- Synonyms:
- fishing frog, frogfish, monkfish, sea devil, sea frog
- Any of the ray-finned fishes of family Batrachoididae of benthic ambush predators.
- Banded toadfish, of Australia (Torquigener pleurogramma).
- Blackspotted toadfish, of the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans (Arothron nigropunctatus).
- Common toadfish (or toadfish), of Australia and New Zealand (Tetractenos hamiltoni).
- Prickly toadfish, of Australia and New Zealand (Contusus richei).
Questions about toadfishes
- What is toadfishes the plural of?
- Toadfishes is the plural of toadfish.
Words near toadfishes in the dictionary
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