moonfish

[ moon-fish ]

noun,plural (especially collectively) moon·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) moon·fish·es.
  1. Also called horsefish, horsehead. any of several silvery marine fishes of the genus Selene, having a very compressed body and inhabiting shallow coastal waters.

  2. the opah.

  1. any of various other rounded, silvery fishes.

Origin of moonfish

1
First recorded in 1640–50; moon + fish

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British Dictionary definitions for moonfish

moonfish

/ (ˈmuːnˌfɪʃ) /


nounplural -fishes or -fish
  1. any of several deep-bodied silvery carangid fishes, occurring in warm and tropical American coastal waters

  2. any of various other round silvery fishes, such as the Indo-Pacific Monodactylus argenteus

  1. another name for opah

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