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toadfish

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From toad + fish, in reference to their toadlike appearance.

noun toadfish · toadfishes

countable, uncountable Any fish of the genus Lophius.
Similar: fishing frog, frogfish, monkfish, sea devil, sea frog
countable, uncountable Any of the ray-finned fishes of family Batrachoididae of benthic ambush predators.
countable, uncountable Banded toadfish, of Australia (Torquigener pleurogramma).
countable, uncountable Blackspotted toadfish, of the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans (Arothron nigropunctatus).
countable, uncountable Common toadfish (or toadfish), of Australia and New Zealand (Tetractenos hamiltoni).
countable, uncountable Prickly toadfish, of Australia and New Zealand (Contusus richei).
countable, uncountable Red striped toadfish, of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (Dichotomyctere erythrotaenia, syn. Tetraodon erythrotaenia).
countable, uncountable Smooth toadfish, of Australia (Tetractenos glaber).
countable, uncountable Dark toadfish (Neophrynichthys latus).
countable, uncountable Frilled toadfish, of Macquarie Island (Ambophthalmos magnicirrus).
countable, uncountable Pale toadfish of New Zealand (Ambophthalmos angustus).

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noun fish resembling toads

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@misc{toadfish_2026,
  title = {toadfish},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/toadfish},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}