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" (15 found)
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More general
8 entriesMore specific
4 entriesLophius americanusmonkfish filletmonkfish steakmonkfish tail
Collocations
5 entriesfrozen monkfishmonkfish filletmonkfish meatmonkfish stewmonkfish tail
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
1 entriesTranslations
25 translations across 18 languages.
Asturian
2 entries- pezapu noun (fish)
- pixín noun (fish)
Bulgarian
2 entries- морски дявол noun (fish)
- риба-въдичар noun (fish)
Catalan
1 entries- rap noun (fish)
Finnish
1 entries- 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
1 entries- 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
1 entries- żabnica noun (fish)
Portuguese
1 entries- tamboril noun (fish)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- grdobina noun (fish)
- грдобина noun (fish)
Spanish
1 entries- 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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