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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies [syn: moonfish, Atlantic moonfish, horsefish, horsehead, horse-head, dollarfish, Selene setapinnis]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Horsefish Horse"fish`, n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The moonfish (Selene setipinnis). (b) The sauger.