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moonfish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun moonfish has 2 senses
- moonfish(n = noun.animal) atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, selene setapinnis - any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies; Array is a kind of carangid, carangid fish
- moonfish(n = noun.animal) lampris regius, opah - large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean; Array is a kind of malacopterygian, soft-finned fish
has particulars: lookdown, lookdown fish, selene vomer
is a member of genus lampris, lampris
CIDE DICTIONARY
moonfish, n.
An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis ); -- called also bluntnosed shiner , horsefish , and sunfish . [1913 Webster]
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