moonfish

1. 1.

   any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies

   SynonymsAtlantic moonfishhorsefishhorseheadhorse-headdollarfishSelene setapinnis

   Broadercarangid fish

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2. 2.

   large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean

   SynonymsopahLampris regius

   Broadersoft-finned fish

   Part ofLampris

Other forms of moonfish

plural

moonfishes

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about moonfish

What does moonfish mean?

moonfish means "any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in moonfish?

moonfish has 2 syllables: moon-fish. The stress falls on "moon".

What is another word for moonfish?

Close synonyms include Atlantic moonfish, horsefish, horsehead, horse-head, dollarfish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is moonfish a common word?

moonfish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.