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- noun Any of various
fishes with largebioluminescent organs , mostly in thefamily Anomalopidae.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico
- noun fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye
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