monkfish   (TTS Sound)

The noun monkfish has 3 senses

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


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


• angel shark, angelfish, Squatina squatina, monkfish -- (sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do)