Goosefish (Noun)
Meaning
Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Goosefish have developed an elaborate feeding system involving the use of their lure-like filament to catch unsuspecting prey.
- Anglerfish, a type of goosefish, typically lure their prey in by moving their filament to resemble a struggling worm or other tasty morsel.
- Researchers studied the way a deep-sea goosefish's mouth stayed wide open while the fish moved slowly to detect potential prey nearby.
- Under dimly lit laboratory conditions, a single goosefish attracted dozens of hungry crustaceans within an hour by just wagging its long lure appendage back and forth.
- Like their nickname 'goosefish', Lophiidae's worms work exactly as angling baits as far as most predatory swimmers have already proven susceptible in any darkness down near rock heaps along which various a smaller but wondrous diversific ecosystem supports underwater habituation's equilibrium against possible impending major life systems demise soon; fortunately over on.