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DOLLARFISH

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Irregular inflected form: dollarfishes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodiesplay

Synonyms:

Atlantic moonfish; dollarfish; horse-head; horsefish; horsehead; moonfish; Selene setapinnis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("dollarfish" is a kind of...):

carangid; carangid fish (a percoid fish of the family Carangidae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dollarfish"):

lookdown; lookdown fish; Selene vomer (similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small food fish of Atlantic coastplay

Synonyms:

dollarfish; Poronotus triacanthus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("dollarfish" is a kind of...):

butterfish; stromateid; stromateid fish (small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines)

Holonyms ("dollarfish" is a member of...):

genus Poronotus; Poronotus (a genus of Stromateidae)

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