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for moonfish
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Spadefish \Spade"fish`\ (sp[=a]d"f[i^]sh`), n. (Zool.)
An American market fish ({Chaetodipterus faber) common on
the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish,
and porgy.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Moonfish \Moon"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
(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.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
moonfish
n 1: any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
[syn: moonfish, Atlantic moonfish, horsefish,
horsehead, horse-head, dollarfish, Selene
setapinnis]
2: large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic
and Pacific and Mediterranean [syn: opah, moonfish,
Lampris regius]
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