anglerfish

See also: angler fish

English

From angler +‎ fish.

anglerfish (countable and uncountable, plural anglerfish or anglerfishes)

Any fish of the bony fish order Lophiiformes, which have an outgrowth they wiggle to lure and catch their prey.

fish of the bony fish order Lophiiformes

Asturian: pixín (ast), pezapu (ast)
Catalan: rap (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鮟鱇 / 𩽾𩾌 (zh) (ānkāng)
Czech: ďas m
Danish: tudsefisk c
Dutch: zeeduivel (nl) m
Faroese: havtaska f
Finnish: krotti (fi), krottikala (fi)
French: baudroie (fr) f
Galician: peixe sapo (gl) m, rabada (gl) f
German: Seeteufel (de) m, Anglerfisch (de) m
Greek: μελανόκητος n (melanókitos)
Hungarian: horgászhal
Indonesian: ikan pemancing, ikan setan laut (literally “sea devil fish”)
Italian: melanoceto m, diavolo nero m
Japanese: アンコウ (ja), 鮟鱇 (ja) (あんこう, ankō)
Navajo: yółeehii
Norman: raînotte dé mé f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: breiflabb (no) m, marulke m or f, marulk m

Nynorsk: marulk m, breiflabb m
Polish: diabeł morski (pl) m, żabnica (pl) f
Portuguese: tamboril (pt) m, peixe-diabo m, peixe-sapo (pt) m, peixe-pescador m
Romanian: pește-viperă m
Russian: ры́ба-уди́льщик f (rýba-udílʹščik)
Spanish: pejesapo m, rape (es) m, pescador con caña m
Swedish: marulkartad fisk c
Turkish: fener balığı (tr)
Volapük: lofiut