Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish of the family Carangidæ, Vomer setipinnis, having a much-compressed oblong body, a head high and angulated far above the eyes, a smooth silvery skin, and low dorsal and anal fins. It inhabits the warm parts of the Atlantic. Also called moonfish, dollar-fish, and blunt-nosed shiner.
- noun A carangoid fish, Selene vomer, closely resembling the foregoing, and known by the same names. See cut under
horsehead . - noun The sauger, Stizostedion canadense.
- noun A sea-horse, as Hippocampus hudsonius.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The moonfish (
Selene setipinnis ). - noun The sauger.
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- noun The
moonfish . - noun The
sauger .
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- noun any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
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