Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A marine carangid game fish (Selene vomer) of western Atlantic waters, having a compressed silvery body with long rays on the dorsal and anal fins and a steep frontal profile.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A carangoid fish, the moonfish or horsehead, Selene vomer. See cut under
horsehead .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A fish (
Selene vomer ) similar to the moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead; it was also called moonfish at one time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
moonfish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead
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Examples
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Surveys by their five "lookdown" radars, besides profiling the underlying landscape, mapped ice layers between coring locations, without chemical detail but showing how layer thickness - and therefore accumulations - varied along the traverse route.
Newsvine - Get Smarter Here AP Special Correspondent Charles J. Hanley 2009
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Surveys by their five "lookdown" radars, besides profiling the underlying landscape, mapped ice layers between coring locations, without chemical detail but showing how layer thickness - and therefore accumulations - varied along the traverse route.
Forbes.com: News 2009
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Surveys by their five "lookdown" radars, besides profiling the underlying landscape, mapped ice layers between coring locations, without chemical detail but showing how layer thickness - and therefore accumulations - varied along the traverse route.
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Surveys by their five "lookdown" radars, besides profiling the underlying landscape, mapped ice layers between coring locations, without chemical detail but showing how layer thickness - and therefore accumulations - varied along the traverse route.
unknown title 2009
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Surveys by their five "lookdown" radars, besides profiling the underlying landscape, mapped ice layers between coring locations, without chemical detail but showing how layer thickness - and therefore accumulations - varied along the traverse route.
unknown title 2009
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Surveys by their five "lookdown" radars, besides profiling the underlying landscape, mapped ice layers between coring locations, without chemical detail but showing how layer thickness - and therefore accumulations - varied along the traverse route.
News for WSLS 10 2009
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Surveys by their five "lookdown" radars, besides profiling the underlying landscape, mapped ice layers between coring locations, without chemical detail but showing how layer thickness _ and therefore accumulations _ varied along the traverse route.
unknown title 2009
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Surveys by their five "lookdown" radars, besides profiling the underlying landscape, mapped ice layers between coring locations, without chemical detail but showing how layer thickness _ and therefore accumulations _ varied along the traverse route.
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Surveys by their five "lookdown" radars, besides profiling the underlying landscape, mapped ice layers between coring locations, without chemical detail but showing how layer thickness _ and therefore accumulations _ varied along the traverse route.
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Surveys by their five "lookdown" radars, besides profiling the underlying landscape, mapped ice layers between coring locations, without chemical detail but showing how layer thickness - and therefore accumulations - varied along the traverse route.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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