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Moonfish
noun
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Noun
- 1 Any of various flat, oval marine fish of numerous species in several families:; in family Monodactylidae (fingerfishes, silver angelfishes).
- 2 large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean wordnet
- 3 Any of various flat, oval marine fish of numerous species in several families:; Mene maculata, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific area.
- 4 any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies wordnet
- 5 Any of various flat, oval marine fish of numerous species in several families:; Most species of the genus Selene.
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- 6 Any of various flat, oval marine fish of numerous species in several families:; Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber).
- 7 Any of various flat, oval marine fish of numerous species in several families:; in family Molidae (ocean sunfish).
- 8 Any of various flat, oval marine fish of numerous species in several families:; opahs in the family Lamprididae.
- 9 Any of various flat, oval marine fish of numerous species in several families:; cusk (Brosme brosme), a North Atlantic cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, the only species in its genus.
- 10 Any of various flat, oval marine fish of numerous species in several families:; southern platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus).
Etymology
From moon + fish, from the silvery color, parallel to the synonymous Dutch cognate maanvis.
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