A bottom-dwelling angel shark of the genus Squatina, with a somewhat flattened body and broad winglike pectoral fins; esp. S. squatina, of eastern…

The monk-fish. Obsolete.

A name for various ugly fish, as the fishing-frog, various large rays, etc. Cf. devil fish, n.

The monkfish of eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean waters, Squatina squatina. More fully kingston fish, kingston ray.

An angel shark; esp. the monkfish Squalus squatina. Cf. angel shark n. at angel, n. compounds 2.

The angel-fish. Obsolete.

A fish. = monkfish, n. 1. Obsolete.

the angel shark, Squatina squatina.

(a) a name given to the Angel-fish or Monk-fish; (b) (see quot. 1867).

See quots.

Any of various animals whose form suggests the cowled or tonsured figure of a monk; spec. = monkfish, n. 1.

any of various bottom-dwelling sharks comprising the genus Squatina (family Squatinidae), having flattened bodies and wing-like pectoral fins; esp.…

the angel-fish, also a rhinobatid or beaked ray.

(a) an angel shark or monkfish (family Squatinidae); (b) Jamaican a kind of butterfish (family Stromateidae), perhaps a harvestfish (genus Peprilus).

The angel-fish, Squatina angelus.

the angel-fish.