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Marine creature
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monkfish
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any large bottom-dwelling anglerfish of the genus ''Lophius'', such as ''Lophius piscatorius'', of the Atlantic, having a large head and mouth. 2 angel shark of the genus (taxlink Squatina genus noshow=1).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Angler \An"gler\, n. One who angles. (Zo["o]l.) 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. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey [syn: goosefish , angler , anglerfish , angler fish , lotte , allmouth , Lophius Americanus ] sharks ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The monkfish is a name for fishes of the anglerfish genus Lophius . Monkfish may also refer to: Inspector Monkfish , a fictional character Sea monk , a marine monster of the Renaissance Squatina squatina , a shark with an unusually flattened body Stargazer ...
Usage examples of monkfish.
Mealy, unpalatable fishes the like of which I have never before heard, with names like monkfish, cusk and hagfish.
While Austin and the others had struggled to pull the stone slab from the armored truck and haul it to the surface, a large ship whose gray hull made it practically invisible was approaching the Monkfish, traveling just fast enough to keep pace with the moving wall of fog.
All sorts of live and recently live fish were moved across the sidewalk: snapper and halibut and mackerel, sea bass and ling cod and yellowtail, clawless Pacific lobster, Dungeness crab, ghastly monkfish, with their long saberlike teeth and a single spine that jutted from their head, bracing a luminous lure they used to draw in prey, so deep in the ocean that the sun never shone.