noun
any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
• Syn: ↑moonfish, ↑Atlantic moonfish, ↑horsefish, ↑horse-head, ↑dollarfish, ↑Selene setapinnis
• Hypernyms: ↑carangid fish, ↑carangid
• Hyponyms: ↑lookdown, ↑lookdown fish, ↑Selene vomer
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun : moonfish a
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/hawrs"hed'/, n., pl. horseheads, (esp. collectively) horsehead.
moonfish (def. 1).
[1880-85; HORSE + HEAD]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.