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Webster 1913 Edition


Moonfish

Moon′fishˊ

,
Noun.
(Zool.)
(a)
An American marine fish (
Vomer setipennis
); – called also
bluntnosed shiner
,
horsefish
, and
sunfish
.
(b)
A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (
Selene vomer
); – called also
lookdown
, and
silver moonfish
.
(c)
The mola. See
Sunfish
, 1.