NOUN | animal | moonfish, Atlantic moonfish, horsefish, horsehead, horse-head, dollarfish, Selene setapinnis | any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies |
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animal | moonfish, opah, Lampris regius | large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean |
Meaning | Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies. | |
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Synonyms | Atlantic moonfish, horsefish, horsehead, horse-head, dollarfish, Selene setapinnis | |
Narrower | lookdown, lookdown fish, Selene vomer | Similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead |
Broader | carangid fish, carangid | A percoid fish of the family Carangidae |
Meaning | large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean. | |
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Synonyms | opah, Lampris regius | |
Member of | Lampris, genus Lampris | type genus of the Lampridae |
Broader | soft-finned fish, malacopterygian | Any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii |
Spanish | lampris, opah | |
Catalan | lampris, opah |
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