noun
1. small food fish of Atlantic coast
• Syn: ↑Poronotus triacanthus
• Hypernyms: ↑butterfish, ↑stromateid fish, ↑stromateid
• Member Holonyms: ↑Poronotus, ↑genus Poronotus
2. any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
• Syn: ↑moonfish, ↑Atlantic moonfish, ↑horsefish, ↑horsehead, ↑horse-head, ↑Selene setapinnis
• Hypernyms: ↑carangid fish, ↑carangid
• Hyponyms: ↑lookdown, ↑lookdown fish, ↑Selene vomer
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ nounEtymology: so called from its shape and the silver color of the young
1. : a small marine butterfish (Poronotus triacanthus) of the family Stromateidae with a laterally compressed body common in summer on the Atlantic coast of the northern and middle U.S. — called also harvest fish
2. : lookdown
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/dol"euhr fish'/, n., pl. (esp. collectively) dollarfish, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) dollarfishes.
1. butterfish.
2. moonfish.
[1840-50; so called because of its roundish shape and silvery color]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.