moonfish

Plural: moonfish, moonfishes

Noun

• any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
• large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
• Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
• The family Monodactylidae (fingerfishes, silver angelfishes).
• Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
• Mene maculata, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific area.
• Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
• Most species of the genus Selene.
• Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
• Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber).
• Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
• The family Molidae (ocean sunfish).
• Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
• The opahs in the family Lamprididae.
• Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
• The cusk (Brosme brosme), a North Atlantic cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, the only species in its genus.
• Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
• The southern platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus).
• pl. -ES a marine fish

Synonyms

Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, Lampris regius, opah, Selene setapinnis, brismak, brosmius, common platy, torsk, tusk