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# frogfish

«frogfish» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small, lumpy sea fish that lives in warm oceans, often…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a frogfish, frogfish or frogfishes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A frogfish is a small, lumpy sea fish that lives in warm oceans, often on coral reefs; it is a kind of anglerfish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frogfish/#m1)

2) It walks on the sea floor using fins like legs and uses a lure on its head to catch prey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frogfish/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Nature and science lessons on adaptations, camouflage and coral reefs. Frogfish can swallow prey as big as themselves. Phrases: hairy frogfish, frogfish camouflage.

### examples

- The frogfish looked just like a sponge on the reef. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frogfish/#x1)
- A frogfish walks along the sea floor on its fins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frogfish/#x2)
- The frogfish wiggled its lure to attract a small fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frogfish/#x3)
- Frogfish can change colour to hide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frogfish/#x4)
- The hairy frogfish is covered in skin spines that look like hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frogfish/#x5)
- Divers struggled to spot the frogfish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frogfish/#x6)

### note

Plural frogfish or frogfishes. It is a fish, not a frog: it breathes with gills and lives only in water.

### In the corpora

- [The frogfish looks like a sponge or rock, waits for fish and swallows them quickly, even fish as big as itself.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «frogfish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frogfish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.