It may be primitive and not too pleasant, but fish like croakers and toadfish hum, grunt, and growl for the same reasons as other vertebrates: to attract mates and to threaten territorial invaders.
Source: tatoeba (11701189)
Toadfish
Synonyms for "toadfish" (3 found)
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Closest matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
common toadfish
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Related words (1)
Noun(1 words)
opsanus tau
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2 entriesOpsanus tauPorichthys notatus
Collocations
6 entriesOpsanus tauacoustic signalingbroad flat headswim bladdertoadfish soundtoadfish vocalization
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
2 translations across 2 languages.
German
1 entries- Anglerfisch noun (fish resembling toads)
Thai
1 entries- ปลาคางคก noun (fish resembling toads)
Sample sentences
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