Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various marine anglerfishes of the family Ogcocephalidae, having a laterally compressed body with a large disklike head, expanded pectoral fins, and a retractable appendage above the mouth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish of the family Maltheidæ (which see).
- noun A name of the flying-fish or flying-robin, Cephalacanthus volitans.
- noun Monodactylus argenteus, of the family Scorpididæ, a silvery fish with the body deeper than long. The name alludes to the high fins.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The
Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. - noun The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (
Cephalacanthus spinarella ). - noun The California batfish or sting ray (
Myliobatis Californicus .)
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
anglerfish of the family Ogcocephalidae
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins
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Examples
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“Mermaids” and “batfish” were favourites, as I recall.
Cautionary tales from the front lines of science - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Lots of big fish, eels, some nudibranches, batfish, and even devil rays.
Diving on Manta Reef jen 2008
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Rudloe has launched Operation Noah's Ark, using his four-acre facility an hour south of Tallahassee to preserve more than 350 different specimens – everything from sharks to starfish, shrimp and batfish – in an environment that includes a grassland and duplicates high and low tides.
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In 2009, LSU's Chakrabarty discovered two new species of bottom-dwelling pancake batfish about 30 miles off the Louisiana coastline – right in line with the pathway of the spill caused when the Deepwater Horizon burned and sank April 24.
Gulf Oil Spill: Massive Underwater Plumes Spell Disaster, Scientists Say 2010
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Lots of big fish, eels, some nudibranches, batfish, and even devil rays.
Archive 2008-10-01 jen 2008
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One of them, a pancake batfish, is a new species that he helped discover.
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"We also saw jacks, trevally, dogtooth tuna, bumphead parrotfish, huge schools of batfish and barracuda, sting rays and mantas."
Dive Time 2009
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Palm-drenched Koh Samui, Thailand's third largest island, boasts the country's only LGBT diving organization. coordinates trips in the calm southern Gulf of Thailand around neighboring Koh Tao ( "Turtle Island") and north to famed Sail Rock, where schools of batfish and giant grouper patrol the 40-foot vertical passage through its granite core and plankton-feeding whale sharks are often sighted.
Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News 2009
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The shortnosed batfish is also odd looking, and it uses its nose as a shovel and a fishing lure:
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When it comes to protecting Australia's Great Barrier Reef, it is hard to beat the batfish.
Archive 2006-12-01 Jon Bischke 2006
whichbe commented on the word batfish
A freaky-looking thing.
June 26, 2009
bilby commented on the word batfish
Mick Jagger.
June 26, 2009