Found 2 items, similar to Moonfish.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: moonfish
moonfish
n 1: any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
[syn:
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,
Lampris regius
]
[also:
moonfishes (pl)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Moonfish
Moonfish
\Moon"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
(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]