Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fish of the family Carangidæ, Vomer setipinnis, having a much-compressed oblong body, a head high and angulated far above the eyes, a smooth silvery skin, and low dorsal and anal fins. It inhabits the warm parts of the Atlantic. Also called moonfish, dollar-fish, and blunt-nosed shiner.
  • noun A carangoid fish, Selene vomer, closely resembling the foregoing, and known by the same names. See cut under horsehead.
  • noun The sauger, Stizostedion canadense.
  • noun A sea-horse, as Hippocampus hudsonius.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The moonfish (Selene setipinnis).
  • noun The sauger.

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  • noun The moonfish.
  • noun The sauger.

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  • noun any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies

Etymologies

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horse +‎ fish

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