Definition of moonfish Moonfish

moon•fish

We found 8 definitions of moonfish from 5 different sources.

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Noun

Plural: moonfishes

moonfish - any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
  Atlantic moonfish, horsefish, horsehead, horse-head, dollarfish, Selene setapinnis
  carangid, carangid fish a percoid fish of the family Carangidae
moonfish - large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
  opah, Lampris regius
  malacopterygian, soft-finned fish any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • moonfish (n.)
    An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.
  • moonfish (n.)
    A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.
  • moonfish (n.)
    The mola. See Sunfish, 1.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • moonfish
    A fish of the genus Chaetodipterus having a disk-shaped body.

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  • moonfish, noun.

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