a. and sb. Ichthyol. [f. mod.L. Lophi-us (app. f. Gr. λόφος or λοφιά mane, back-fin of fishes) + -OID.] a. adj. Pertaining to the family Lophiidæ, of which the typical genus is Lophius, represented by the Angler or Fishing-frog. b. sb. A lophioid fish.
1854. Owen, in Circ. Sci. (c. 1865), II. 56/1. Certain lophioid fishes … are enabled to hop after the … tide.
1859–62. Sir J. Richardson, etc., Mus. Nat. Hist. (1868), II. 134. The skeletons of the Lophioids are fibrous.
1883. Rep. Copepoda coll. 1873–6, in Challenger Rep., VIII. 137. The curious Lophioid genus Ceratias.
