MOLA
Dictionary entry overview: What does mola mean? • MOLA (noun)
The noun MOLA has 1 sense:
1. among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters
Familiarity information: MOLA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MOLA (noun)
Meaning:
Among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
headfish; mola; ocean sunfish; sunfish
Hypernyms ("mola" is a kind of...):
plectognath; plectognath fish (tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mola"):
Mola lanceolata; sharptail mola (caudal fin has a central projection)
Holonyms ("mola" is a member of...):
genus Mola (type genus of the Molidae)
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