HORSEHEAD

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies

Synonyms:

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

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Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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

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

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