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LOTTE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey

Synonyms:

allmouth; angler; angler fish; anglerfish; goosefish; Lophius Americanus; lotte; monkfish

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("lotte" is a kind of...):

acanthopterygian; spiny-finned fish (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)

Meronyms (parts of "lotte"):

monkfish (flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America)

Holonyms ("lotte" is a member of...):

family Lophiidae; Lophiidae (large-headed marine fishes comprising the anglers)

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