MONKFISH (monkfishes)

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Irregular inflected form: monkfishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does monkfish mean? 

• MONKFISH (noun)
  The noun MONKFISH has 3 senses:

1. flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America

2. fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey

3. sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do

  Familiarity information: MONKFISH used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONKFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("monkfish" is a kind of...):

saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Holonyms ("monkfish" is a part of...):

allmouth; angler; angler fish; anglerfish; goosefish; Lophius Americanus; lotte; monkfish (fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

allmouth; angler; angler fish; anglerfish; goosefish; Lophius Americanus; lotte; monkfish

Hypernyms ("monkfish" is a kind of...):

acanthopterygian; spiny-finned fish (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)

Meronyms (parts of "monkfish"):

monkfish (flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America)

Holonyms ("monkfish" is a member of...):

family Lophiidae; Lophiidae (large-headed marine fishes comprising the anglers)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

angel shark; angelfish; monkfish; Squatina squatina

Hypernyms ("monkfish" is a kind of...):

shark (any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales)

Holonyms ("monkfish" is a member of...):

genus Squatina; Squatina (type genus of the Squatinidae: angel sharks)