Meaning of MOONFISH
| Pronunciation: | | 'moon`fish
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- [n] large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
- [n] any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
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| | Synonyms: | | Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horsefish, horsehead, Lampris regius, opah, Selene setapinnis |
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| | See Also: | | carangid, carangid fish, genus Lampris, Lampris, lookdown, lookdown fish, malacopterygian, Selene vomer, soft-finned fish | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Moon"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) An American marine fish ({Vomer setipennis}); -- called
also {bluntnosed shiner}, {horsefish}, and {sunfish}.
(b) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish ({Selene vomer}); --
called also {lookdown}, and {silver moonfish}.
(c) The mola. See {Sunfish}, 1.
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