moonfish

Noun

Meaning

An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.

A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.

The mola. See Sunfish, 1.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

horsehead opah horsefish dollarfish Atlantic moonfish horse-head Selene setapinnis Lampris regius tusk blowfish puffer puff boxfish cowfish lookdown
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Hypernyms

malacopterygian carangid soft-finned fish carangid fish

Hyponyms

lookdown lookdown fish Selene vomer

Derivatives

moonfishes

Close letter words and terms

moonface moonfaced moonfall moonfishes moonflask moonflower