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MOONFISH (moonfishes)

Dictionary entry overview: What does moonfish mean?

• MOONFISH (noun)
The noun MOONFISH has 2 senses:

1. any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
2. large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean

Familiarity information: MOONFISH used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MOONFISH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

moonfish; horsehead; horsefish; horse-head; Atlantic moonfish; Selene setapinnis; dollarfish

Hypernyms ("moonfish" is a kind of...):

carangid; carangid fish (a percoid fish of the family Carangidae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "moonfish"):

lookdown; lookdown fish; Selene vomer (similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Lampris regius; opah; moonfish

Hypernyms ("moonfish" is a kind of...):

malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)

Holonyms ("moonfish" is a member of...):

genus Lampris; Lampris (type genus of the Lampridae)

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