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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]
2: large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean [syn: opah, moonfish, Lampris regius]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural moonfish or moonfishes) Date: 1646 any of various compressed often short deep-bodied silvery or yellowish marine fishes: as a. opah b. platy

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. = OPAH.

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

Spadefish Spade"fish`, n. (Zo["o]l.) An American market fish (Ch[ae]todipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.