Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun monkfish

3 senses of monkfish

Sense 1
monkfish -- (flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America)
       => saltwater fish -- (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Sense 2
goosefish, angler, anglerfish, angler fish, monkfish, lotte, allmouth, Lophius Americanus -- (fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey)
       => spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian -- (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)

Sense 3
angel shark, angelfish, Squatina squatina, monkfish -- (sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do)
       => shark -- (any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales)