Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To catch a fish or try to catch a fish by hand; noodle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pediculate fish of the family Antennariidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The frogfish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology
anglerfishes of the Brachionichthysgenus and the Brachionichthyidae family, which can "walk" on the sea floor using theirpectoral fins .
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Examples
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Unlike World of Warcraft's Murlocs, handfish are relatively scarce.
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With the various species extremely sensitive to environmental change and plagued with low breeding rates, perhaps one day World of Warcraft's Murloc will be the closest anyone can come to seeing a wild handfish.
Kotaku 2010
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One of the few species of marine life endemic to Australia, the handfish has been difficult to classify in the past, due to relative rarity of specimens.
Kotaku 2010
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Nine new species for disappearing handfish family [CSIRO - Thanks Mark!]
Kotaku 2010
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It's easy to imagine the handfish as the inspiration for some of World of Warcraft's most hated and beloved enemies.
Kotaku 2010
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"It's not just two or three handfish species of concern.
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The nine new species of handfish recently described by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization brought the grand total of handfish species to fourteen, six of which are exclusively found in Tasmania, and one of which was "possibly collected in
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