Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several carangid fishes chiefly of the genus Selene, found in warm coastal waters of North and South America and having a short silvery compressed body.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of several fishes.
- noun The opah, Lampris guttatus.
- noun Same as
mariposa , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An American marine fish (
Vomer setipennis ); -- called alsobluntnosed shiner ,horsefish , andsunfish . - noun A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (
Selene vomer ); -- called alsolookdown , andsilver moonfish . - noun The mola. See
sunfish , 1.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of various flat, egground
marine fish species .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
- noun large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
Etymologies
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Examples
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The secret ingredient: opah (also known as moonfish or sunfish).
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The roles since then have been seemingly random: an abominable snowman, a school of moonfish, a supervillain, an anthropomorphic Mack truck, a waiter, a space traveler and a construction worker.
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He did witness "extensive moonfish kills" and also saw a number of dead sand perch and some tarpon.
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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He buys albacore at $1.15 a pound, carita (Pacific moonfish) at $0.12 a pound and shrimp at $1.40
Kiva Loans 2009
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He buys albacore at $1.15 a pound, carita (Pacific moonfish) at $0.12 a pound and shrimp at $1.40
Kiva Loans 2009
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Sunfish, known in German as moonfish, are large flat fish with large fins on their top and underside.
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At the back of the store, the silvery gleam of a large opah (moonfish) was on display with other catches from the ocean.
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opah moonfish is one of my favourite fishes, ever. in hawaii, you can get dried opah at this little market called tamashiro's;if you're ever there, seek it out, it's fantastic--thinly sliced, marinated in soy, sesame oil and sprinkled with sesame seeds.
Tuna Toast Tokyoastrogirl 2006
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