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 →

2) It walks on the sea floor using fins like legs and uses a lure on its head to catch prey. tree →

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 →
• A frogfish walks along the sea floor on its fins. tree →
• The frogfish wiggled its lure to attract a small fish. tree →
• Frogfish can change colour to hide. tree →
• The hairy frogfish is covered in skin spines that look like hair. tree →
• Divers struggled to spot the frogfish. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «frogfish» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.