moonfish

moon·fish

M0411600 (mo͞on′fĭsh′)n. pl. moonfish or moon·fish·es 1. 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.2. See opah.

moonfish

(ˈmuːnˌfɪʃ) n, pl -fishes or -fish1. (Animals) any of several deep-bodied silvery carangid fishes, occurring in warm and tropical American coastal waters2. (Animals) any of various other round silvery fishes, such as the Indo-Pacific Monodactylus argenteus3. (Animals) another name for opah

moon•fish

(ˈmunˌfɪʃ)

n., pl. (esp. collectively) -fish, (esp. for kinds or species) -fish•es. 1. any of several deep-bodied, compressed carangid fishes of the genus Selene. 2. opah. [1640–50]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	moonfish - any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodieshorsefish, horsehead, horse-head, Selene setapinnis, Atlantic moonfish, dollarfishcarangid, carangid fish - a percoid fish of the family Carangidaelookdown, lookdown fish, Selene vomer - similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead
	2.	moonfish - large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and MediterraneanLampris regius, opahmalacopterygian, soft-finned fish - any fish of the superorder Malacopterygiigenus Lampris, Lampris - type genus of the Lampridae