Moonfish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of several marine fishes of the family Carangidae, found in warm coastal waters of North and South America and having short compressed bodies and a silver to yellowish color. Also called dollarfish.
  • n. See opah.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of various flat, egground marine fish species.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.
  • n. A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.
  • n. The mola. See sunfish, 1.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A name of several fishes.
  • n. The opah, Lampris guttatus.
  • n. Same as mariposa, 2.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
  • n. large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    malacopterygian    soft-finned fish   
    Variant
    moonfishes    blunt-nosed shiner    horsefish    sunfish    lookdown   
     
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