noun
toadfishes; related to anglers and batfishes
• Syn: ↑family Batrachoididae
• Hypernyms: ↑fish family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Pediculati, ↑order Pediculati
• Member Meronyms: ↑toadfish, ↑Opsanus tau
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\\ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈkȯidəˌdē\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Batrachoides, type genus (from Greek batrachos frog + New Latin -oides) + -idae
: a family of marine fishes (order Haplodoci) having the head large and depressed and the mouth very wide and including the common toadfishes
Useful english dictionary. 2012.