bristlemouth en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From bristle + mouth.
Meanings
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A member of Gonostomatidae, a family of deep-water marine fish.
Predators of the bristlemouth turn out to include dragon fish and fangtooths, denizens of the abyss with daggerlike teeth.
2015 June 29, William J. Broad, “An Ocean Mystery in the Trillions”, in New York Times:
- A member of one of several of the species of oceanic ray-finned fish in genera Argyripnus or Maurolicus in the family Sternoptychidae.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bristlemouths | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Mueller's bristlemouth (Maurolicus muelleri · tan bristlemouth · yellow bristlemouth · Brock's bristlemouth · pale bristlemouth · smalltooth bristlemouth · showy bristlemouth · Kobayashi's bristlemouth · bicolored bristlemouth · tanned bristlemouth · veiled bristlemouth · hidden bristlemouth · Brauer's bristlemouth · Reunion bristlemouth · Power's deep-water bristle-mouth fish · black bristlemouth · smalltooth bristlemouth · shadow bristlemouth · Gilbert & Cramer's bristlemouth · deep-water bristlemouth · slender bristlemouth · benttooth bristlemouth · elongated bristlemouth
Synonyms
anglemouth (member of Gonostomatidae) · lightfish (member of Gonostomatidae)