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Noun monkfish has 3 senses
  1. monkfish - flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America
    --1 is a kind of     saltwater fish
    --1 is a part of
     goosefish, angler, anglerfish, angler fish, monkfish, lotte, allmouth, Lophius Americanus
  2. goosefish, angler, anglerfish, angler fish, monkfish, lotte, allmouth, Lophius Americanus - fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
    --2 is a kind of spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian
    --2 is a member of Lophiidae, family Lophiidae
    --2 has parts: monkfish
  3. angel shark, angelfish, Squatina squatina, monkfish - sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do
    --3 is a kind of shark
    --3 is a member of Squatina, genus Squatina
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