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moonfish

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Meaning

  1. noun Any of various species of fish of a round appearance in several families: Any member of the species Mene maculata (razor moonfish), sole accepted, extant species of family Menidae, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific area; A platyfish, of either of Xiphophorus maculatus or X. variatus (family Poeciliidae).
  2. noun Any member of the species Mene maculata (razor moonfish), sole accepted, extant species of family Menidae, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific area;
  3. noun A platyfish, of either of Xiphophorus maculatus or X. variatus (family Poeciliidae).
  4. noun Any member of most species of the genera Selene and Paraselene (family Carangidae).
  5. noun Any member of the genus Lampris of opahs (family Lamprididae);
  6. noun Any member of the species Mola mola (common mola or ocean sunfish; family Molidae).

Similar words

opah dollarfish horsefish horsehead atlantic moonfish lampris regius selene setapinnis sunfish boxfish roundfish

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