I’ve had the good luck to cook monkfish on both sides of the Atlantic. The European monkfish is Lophius piscatorius, while our western Atlantic brand is Lophius americanus.
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Monkfish
//ˈmʌŋk.fɪʃ//
Synonyms for "monkfish" (12 found)
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Noun(2 words)
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Related words (6)
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35 translations across 19 languages.
Asturian
2 entries- pezapu noun (fish)
- pixín noun (fish)
Bulgarian
3 entries- морски ангел noun (shark)
- морски дявол noun (fish)
- риба-въдичар noun (fish)
Catalan
1 entries- rap noun (fish)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 僧鲨 noun (shark)
Finnish
2 entries- merienkeli noun (shark)
- merikrotti noun (fish)
French
2 entries- baudroie noun (fish)
- lotte noun (fish)
Galician
2 entries- peixe sapo noun (fish)
- rabada noun (fish)
German
2 entries- Meeresteufel noun (fish)
- Seeteufel noun (fish)
Hungarian
1 entries- ördöghal noun (fish)
Irish
3 entries- anglait noun (shark)
- bráthair noun (shark)
- láimhíneach noun (fish)
Italian
1 entries- coda di rospo noun (fish)
Korean
1 entries- 아귀 noun (fish)
Māori
2 entries- kourepoua noun (fish)
- moamoa noun (fish)
Norman
1 entries- mouaine noun (fish)
Polish
4 entries- anioł morski noun (shark)
- raszpla noun (shark)
- raszpla zwyczajna noun (shark)
- skwat noun (shark)
Portuguese
1 entries- tamboril noun (fish)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- grdobina noun (fish)
- грдобина noun (fish)
Spanish
2 entries- angelote noun (shark)
- rape noun (fish)
Swedish
1 entries- marulk noun (fish)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
[The] monkfish is preceded by the “monstre Leonin” and followed by the “monstre marinen habit d'Evesque” (de Monstro Leonino and de pisce Episcopi habitu respectively). The creature represented in these works is a hybrid: his round and tonsured ...
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