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Definition of Moonfish

1. Noun. Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies.

2. Noun. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.

Definition of Moonfish

1. n. An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.

Definition of Moonfish

1. Noun. (zoology) Any of various flat, egground marine fish species. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Moonfish

1. a marine fish [n -ES]

Medical Definition of Moonfish

1. An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish. A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); called also lookdown, and silver moonfish. The mola. See Sunfish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moonfish

moondials moondust moondusts moone mooned mooner mooners moonery moonet moonets

mooneye mooneyes moonface moonfaced moonfaces moonfish (current term) moonfishes moonflower moonflowers moong

moongazing moonglade moonglades moongs moonie moonier moonies mooniest moonily mooniness

Literary usage of Moonfish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Story of the Fishes by George Robert Charles Herbert Pembroke, James Newton Baskett, George Henry Kingsley (1899)
"Two of the head-fish, the salt-water sunfish and the moonfish, are said to be so called because the great body of the first named and the smaller body of ..."

2. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"Now, on the hother 'and, sir, look at the moonfish. ... wersy from a moonfish, it 'asn't hany draft, and don't carry any sail to speak of, and so it 'ides ..."

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