(n.) A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the most recent was in June last year, when a boatload of anglers came across a dead 23ft squid off Port Salerno on the state's Atlantic coast.
(2) A pensioner is celebrating a catch of the day that’s closer to Herman Melville than Harry Ramsden’s after reeling in the biggest cod recorded to have been landed by a British angler.
(3) Characterization of the translation products by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate showed a major polypeptide weighing 11,500 daltons that was specifically precipitated by an antibody against angler fish insulin.
(4) The river is mentioned in Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler , a seminal work published in 1653 on the art and spirit of fishing, while Frederic Halford, the founder of modern fly fishing, fished many beats along the Kennet in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
(5) Soon after Chinese salmon deal was unveiled in 2011, British anglers said they were horrified by its implications for wild fish stocks , because of the impact of sea lice infestation on wild salmon, and the risks of escaped farmed salmon having cross-bred with wild fish.
(6) The authors describe a clinical case of rhinitis and asthma in an angler after exposure to antigenic material released from larvae of fly, commonly used by anglers as bait.
(7) Benson, a common carp also known as the "people's fish" owing to its huge size and popularity with anglers, was in fact female, according to its keeper.
(8) Estimates were made for people with average intakes of air, water, foods, household dust, and soil, as well as for recreational anglers and aboriginal subsistence fishermen, who were expected to have higher intakes.
(9) Disease data were recorded in 143 north German dairy herds including cows of three breeds: Angler, German Red and White and German Black and White.
(10) As he painted, using the shelters’ trademark black-pigmented wood tar oil, he told me: “We get walkers, kayakers, anglers.
(11) In fact, its origins date at least as far back as the 19th century, when it is recorded in a threat made by disgruntled German villagers against an English angler who was depleting the stocks of their trout streams.
(12) No information is available in the United States on the levels of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs) and dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in anglers who consume a great deal of fish presumed to be contaminated by these chemicals.
(13) Izaak Walton's young friend Charles Cotton, in later editions of The Compleat Angler , described the "Lathkin" as "the purest and most transparent stream that I ever yet saw … and breeds, it is said, the reddest and the best trouts in England."
(14) The African Angler ( african-angler.net ) offers guided day trips fishing on Lake Nasser from £80pp and three-night Aswan-Abu Simbel cruises from £270pp.
(15) Angling and the use of dyed maggots by anglers were not found to be risk factors.
(16) Spinal and cranial ganglia of American angler fish, Lophius americanus, are often infected with microsporidia.
(17) John Gale, conservation director for Backcountry Hunters and Anglers in Missoula, Montana, said the Utah representatives were pushing the bills despite their proven unpopularity.
(18) Along with the Itchen and the Test, both in Hampshire, the Kennet was once one of England's most sought-after rivers among anglers.
(19) The spinal cords of other teleosts, the sun-fish and angler, also are abbreviated and possess a filum terminale and cauda equina.
(20) The National Trust, RSPB , WWF and the Anglers' Trust, which together represent at least eight million people, claim that there are "serious flaws" in the way the options for generating large amounts of green electricty from the estuary were chosen, with a bias towards large-scale projects.
Fisherman
Definition:
(n.) One whose occupation is to catch fish.
(n.) A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery.
Example Sentences:
(1) I started as a professional fisherman at 14, going up the coast from Vancouver for two months in summer, working 20-hour days with my father.
(2) The first thing she made me was an octopus, which I used in a picture of a fisherman.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A local fisherman working for a company contracted by Samarco mine operator clears up dead fish found on the beach of Povoacao village.
(4) Cantwell, the son of a fisherman father and a house-cleaner mother, said he often thinks he presides over a town comprising two very different worlds living just minutes apart.
(5) But it was sociable, too – Roberto organised a barbecue (with steaks from his cattle-farmer friend) and a fish supper (with octopus stew from his fisherman friend).
(6) Yoshiyuki Kumagai, fisherman from Ofunato There was a time after the disaster when fisherman Yoshiyuki Kumagai could not bring himself to look at the port.
(7) A pure growth of Branhamella catarrhalis was obtained from subpleural abscesses in a 65-year-old fisherman with a persistent pneumothorax; underlying disorders included lung fibrosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and diabetes mellitus.
(8) It is our antipathy towards migrants that kills in the Mediterranean Read more “When they leave, they are told to stay where they’re seated,” said the fisherman.
(9) "You have to support them that are trying to pick up their trades, even if you just caught three sole and can't afford a curry," said Rob, a fisherman collecting a takeaway.
(10) "We're happy with it, of course," the fisherman said, standing outside his house on the mud flats of the Indus delta.
(11) His daughter Eliza has also worked political messages into songs of her own, such as You Know Me , about the plight of refugees, and Fisherman, about the Occupy movement.
(12) Certificates showing the occupation on fisherman (or similar term) or lumper were extracted.
(13) A former commercial fisherman, Odom said the “geological marvel” of Georgia’s coastline – it has 15 barrier islands and large expanses of untouched marshlands – would be in severe danger from any oil spill.
(14) A fisherman has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £50,000 after he was caught dredging for scallops in a conservation area protected because it is a precious habitat for marine animals including dolphins.
(15) Pope Kiril I in The Shoes of the Fisherman is succeeded by Gregory XVII in The Clowns of God , who gives way to Leo XIV in Lazarus (1990).
(16) This little town in the far south of Mexico’s Baja California is basically a community of fisherman families who realised they were over-fishing their own backyard and created a marine protected area.
(17) "A fisherman accused Paul of trying to kill him, although it is evident that Paul did not and that evidence is on film.
(18) These food-borne parasitic zoonoses are important public health problems; they are of concern for the live stock and food industry and for farmers and fisherman.
(19) Computing exposure via ingestion for the average fisherman indicated that if one were to consume robalo throughout the year one would be exposed in excess of the EPA Reference Dose (RfD) for mercury.
(20) But I've been a fisherman for 48 years and I'm not going to give up now."