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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several marine food and game fishes of the family Ephippidae, especially Chaetodipterus faber of warm western Atlantic coastal waters, having a deep, laterally compressed body with a short snout.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Chætodipterus faber: same as moonfish . See angel-fish, 3, and cut under Chætodipterus.
  • noun Same as paddle-fish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) An American market fish (Chætodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology Any of several marine fish of the family Ephippidae

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From its shape.]

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