monkfish

English

a monkfish on ice at a fish market

Noun

monkfish (countable and uncountable, plural monkfish or monkfishes)

1. Any large bottom-dwelling anglerfish of the genus Lophius, such as Lophius piscatorius, of the Atlantic, having a large head and mouth.
2. An angel shark, of the genus Squatina.

Translations

fish

• Bulgarian: риба-въдичар (riba-vǎdičar), морски дявол m (morski djavol)
• Catalan: rap (ca) m
• Finnish: merikrotti (fi)
• French: lotte (fr) f, baudroie (fr) f
• Galician: peixe sapo (gl) m, rabada (gl) f
• German: Seeteufel (de) m, Meeresteufel m
• Hungarian: ördöghal (hu)
• Irish: láimhíneach m
• Italian: coda di rospo f
• Korean: 아귀 (ko) (agwi)
• Maori: kourepoua, moamoa
• Norman: mouaine m (Jersey)
• Polish: żabnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: tamboril (pt) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: грдобина f

  Latin: grdobina (sh) f

• Spanish: rape (es) m
• Swedish: marulk (sv)

shark

• Bulgarian: морски ангел m (morski angel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 僧鲨

• Finnish: merienkeli (fi)
• Irish: anglait f, bráthair m
• Spanish: angelote (es) m

Further reading

• monkfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lophius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Lophius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons