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moonfish |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Moonfish \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Spadefish \Spade"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An American market fish ({Ch[ae]todipterus faber}) common on the southern coasts; -- called also {angel fish}, {moonfish}, and {porgy}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: moonfish n 1: any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies [syn: {Atlantic moonfish}, {horsefish}, {horsehead}, {dollarfish}, {Selene setapinnis}] 2: large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean [syn: {opah}, {Lampris regius}]
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