| monk | (noun) a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | Synonyms: monastic |
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| monkey | (noun) any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) | - |
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| (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
| (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, putter, tinker |
| (verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: fiddle, tamper |
| monkeypod | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, rain tree, saman, zaman, zamang |
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| monkfish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte |
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| (noun) sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do | Synonyms: angel shark, angelfish, Squatina squatina |
| (noun) flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America | - |
| monkhood | (noun) monks collectively, considered as a group. | - |
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| monkish | (adjective) befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial | - |
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| monkshood | (noun) a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite | Synonyms: Aconitum napellus, helmet flower, helmetflower |
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