Thesaurus: moonfish

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1. n. An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.
2. n. A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.
3. n. The mola. See Sunfish, 1.
4. n. any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
5. n. large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
6. (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.
7. n any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies n large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean