Akademik

anomalops

noun

fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico

• Syn: ↑flashlight fish

• Hypernyms: ↑spiny-finned fish, ↑acanthopterygian

• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Anomalops

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\\əˈnäməˌläps\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from anomal- + -ops

: a genus of fishes (order Berycomorphi) having a luminous organ beneath each eye filled with light-producing bacteria and known from warm seas of the southwestern Pacific and about Puerto Rico

Useful english dictionary. 2012.