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monkfish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun monkfish has 3 senses
- monkfish(n = noun.food) Array - flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America; Array is a part of allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, lophius americanus, lotte, monkfish
- monkfish(n = noun.animal) allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, lophius americanus, lotte - fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey; Array is a member of family lophiidae, lophiidae
- monkfish(n = noun.animal) angel shark, angelfish, squatina squatina - sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do; Array is a kind of shark
is a kind of saltwater fish
is a kind of acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish
has parts: monkfish
is a member of genus squatina, squatina
OXFORD DICTIONARY
monkfish, n.
1 an angler-fish, esp. Lophius piscatorius, often used as food.
2 a large cartilaginous fish, Squatina squatina, with a flattened body and large pectoral fins. Also called angel-shark.
1 an angler-fish, esp. Lophius piscatorius, often used as food.
2 a large cartilaginous fish, Squatina squatina, with a flattened body and large pectoral fins. Also called angel-shark.
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