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Definition of Dollarfish
1. Noun. Small food fish of Atlantic coast.
Exact synonyms: Poronotus Triacanthus
Generic synonyms: Butterfish, Stromateid, Stromateid Fish
Group relationships: Genus Poronotus, Poronotus
Generic synonyms: Butterfish, Stromateid, Stromateid Fish
Group relationships: Genus Poronotus, Poronotus
2. Noun. Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies.
Exact synonyms: Atlantic Moonfish, Horse-head, Horsefish, Horsehead, Moonfish, Selene Setapinnis
Generic synonyms: Carangid, Carangid Fish
Specialized synonyms: Lookdown, Lookdown Fish, Selene Vomer
Generic synonyms: Carangid, Carangid Fish
Specialized synonyms: Lookdown, Lookdown Fish, Selene Vomer
Definition of Dollarfish
1. Noun. ''Peprilus triacanthus'', the American butterfish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dollarfish
Literary usage of Dollarfish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"There is but a single species in our waters. Butterfish; dollarfish ...
the dollarfish of Maine, the sheepshead of Cape Cod, the pumpkinseed of Connecticut, ..."
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