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Noun: moonfish  'moon,fish
  1. Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
    - Atlantic moonfish, horsefish, horsehead, horse-head, dollarfish, Selene setapinnis
     
  2. Large elliptical brightly coloured deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
    - opah, Lampris regius

Derived forms: moonfishes

Type of: carangid, carangid fish, malacopterygian, soft-finned fish

Part of: genus Lampris, Lampris

Encyclopedia: Moonfish

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