Headfish

Head´fish`    (hĕd´fĭsh`)

n.

1.

(Zool.) The sunfish (Mola).

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

headfish - among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters mola, ocean sunfish, sunfish plectognath, plectognath fish - tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines genus Mola - type genus of the Molidae Mola lanceolata, sharptail mola - caudal fin has a central projection