angler fish
(also ‘angler’, and as one word ‘anglerfish‘; plural: ‘angler fish’ or ‘angler fishes‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘g’ is said with a ‘g’ sound as in “gun”)
the head, with the lure (in circle), of an angler fish
a kind of fish, found in the deep seas; bony fish with very large head and wide mouth with sharp teeth, found at the dark bottom of the sea — up to a mile deep below the surface of the water; grows up to 3.3. feet (1 m) in length; about 200 species (kinds) found mostly in the Atlantic and Antarctic Oceans
(an angler — a man fishing with a fishing rod)
The name ‘angler’ is given to this fish because of the fleshy growth on its thick large head, which can be moved in all directions so that it looks like a small prey, and the fish uses it as a fishing rod with a bait (angling), and when the other fish come closer (lured) to eat that prey, angler fish catches them with its big sharp-toothed mouth. (In some kinds, the bulb glows, like a glow worm.) But this feature is found only in females.
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