Moon"fish` (?), n. 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.

 

© Webster 1913.

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