moonfish

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Definition of moonfish in English English dictionary

Any of various flat, egground marine fish species

Most moonseeds are silvery (hence their name), other yellowish.

The mola

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

any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies

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

{i} type of large fish found in the Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean; any of a type of silvery flat fish

See Sunfish, 1

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

Hyphenation

moon·fish

Etymology

() Germanic: moon + fish; parallel to the cognate, synonymous Dutch maanvis