toadfish
Meanings
noun
- Any fish thought to resemble a toad
- Any of the ray-finned fishes of family Batrachoididae of benthic ambush predators.
- Certain species in family Tetraodontidae
- 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)
- red striped toadfish, of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (Dichotomyctere erythrotaenia, syn. Tetraodon erythrotaenia)
- smooth toadfish, of Australia (Tetractenos glaber)
- Certain species in family Psychrolutidae
- dark toadfish (Neophrynichthys latus)
- frilled toadfish, of Macquarie Island (Ambophthalmos magnicirrus)
Word forms
Etymology
From toad + fish, in reference to their toadlike appearance.
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