Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Moonfish"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Moonfish \Moon"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
(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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spadefish \Spade"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
An American market fish ({Ch[ae]todipterus faber}) common on
the southern coasts; -- called also {angel fish}, {moonfish},
and {porgy}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
moonfish
n 1: any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
[syn: {Atlantic moonfish}, {horsefish}, {horsehead}, {dollarfish},
{Selene setapinnis}]
2: large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic
and Pacific and Mediterranean [syn: {opah}, {Lampris
regius}]
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