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HORSEFISH
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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 ("horsefish" is a kind of...):
carangid; carangid fish (a percoid fish of the family Carangidae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horsefish"):
lookdown; lookdown fish; Selene vomer (similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead)