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Webster 1913 Edition
Moonfish
Moon′fishˊ
,Noun.
(Zool.)
(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. Definition 2024
moonfish
moonfish
English
a moonfish ("ocean sunfish")
Noun
moonfish (plural moonfish or moonfishes)
- Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
- Most moonfish are silvery (hence their name), others yellowish
- Family Monodactylidae
- Mene maculata
- Selene spp.
- Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber)
- Family Molidae (ocean sunfish)
- The opahs in the family Lamprididae.
- The cusk (Brosme brosme), a North Atlantic cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, the only species in its genus.
- The southern platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus)
Synonyms
- (Brosme brosme): brismak, brosmius, torsk, tusk
- (Xiphophorus maculatus): common platy