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DOLLARFISH
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Irregular inflected form: dollarfishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
Synonyms:
Atlantic moonfish; dollarfish; horse-head; horsefish; horsehead; moonfish; Selene setapinnis
Classified under:
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 coast
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)
