wolffish

wolf·fish  (wlffsh)

n.

Any of several northern marine fishes of the genus Anarhichas, having sharp powerful teeth and a voracious appetite.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	wolffish - large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins wolf fish, catfish blennioid, blennioid fish - elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins Anarhichas, genus Anarhichas - type genus of the Anarhichadidae
	2.	wolffish - large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail lancet fish, lancetfish malacopterygian, soft-finned fish - any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii Alepisaurus, genus Alepisaurus - slender scaleless predaceous tropical deep-sea fishes