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toadfish (iou)



toadfish noun. , (usu.) same. E17.
[from TOAD + FISH noun1.]
A puffer fish; esp. the poisonous Sphoeroides hamiltoni (more fully common toadfish) of Australasian waters; a porcupine fish. E17.
A frog-fish; esp. (chiefly S. Afr.) one of the family Antennariidae. M17.
Any of various bottom-dwelling fishes of the family Batrachoididae, which have a wide flattened head and large mouth, and are found in warm shallow seas; esp. (more fully oyster toadfish) Opsanus tau of the US Atlantic coast (also called oyster-fish). E18.