Definition of "anglerfish" []

• A marine fish of the order Lophiiformes or Pediculati, having a long dorsal fin ray that is suspended over the mouth and that serves as a lure to attract prey. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Name an ingredient, from anglerfish to zucchini, and it probably begins with a seed."
• "Players bought a translucent anglerfish at six times the rate of other sea creatures, using an imaginary currency people get by playing the game."
• ""Eventually the male becomes nothing but a lump on the female's side – an unconscious bulge where once swam an individual": the Blackdevil anglerfish."