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bristle +‎ mouth

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bristlemouth (plural bristlemouths)

  1. A member of Gonostomatidae, a family of deep-water marine fish.
    • 2015 June 29, William J. Broad, “An Ocean Mystery in the Trillions”, in New York Times[1]:
      Predators of the bristlemouth turn out to include dragon fish and fangtooths, denizens of the abyss with daggerlike teeth.
  2. A member of one of several of the species of oceanic ray-finned fish in genera Argyripnus or Maurolicus in the family Sternoptychidae.

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