鮟鱇

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) anglerfish; monkfish

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Various theories of the origin of exist, such as from  or,  perhaps related to Korean. The kanji spelling is an Edo-period coinage, found for example in the 1709 biology text 大和本草 (Yamato Honzō, “Japanese Biology”), formed from earlier  by adding the  radical to each of the ateji characters. The current 鮟鱇 form has replaced the earlier form.

Noun

 * 1) an anglerfish, a monkfish, a goosefish