A name given to various fishes, esp. to the Angler or Fishing-frog (Lophius piscatorius). Other varieties belong to the genera Batrachus and Chironectes.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. xxiv. 169. The … Frog-fish.

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1769.  Pennant, Zool. (1776), III. 105. Toad-fish, Frog-fish, or Sea-Devil.

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1835–6.  R. B. Todd, The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, I. 114/2. The œesophagus of the frog-fish leads to a large globular stomach.

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1879.  Rossiter, Dict. Sci. Terms, Frog fishes = Chironectes: a fish belonging to Telostei.

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