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    HEADFISH

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     I. (noun) 

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    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 watersplay

    Synonyms:

    headfish; mola; ocean sunfish; sunfish

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    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("headfish" 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 "headfish"):

    Mola lanceolata; sharptail mola (caudal fin has a central projection)

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

    genus Mola (type genus of the Molidae)

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