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MOONFISH
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Irregular inflected form: moonfishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
Synonyms:
Lampris regius; moonfish; opah
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
Synonyms:
Atlantic moonfish; dollarfish; horse-head; horsefish; horsehead; moonfish; Selene setapinnis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
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)
