moonfish

moon·fish  (mnfsh)

n. pl. moonfish or moon·fish·es

1. Any of several marine fishes of the family Carangidae, found in warm coastal waters of North and South America and having short compressed bodies and a silver to yellowish color. Also called dollarfish.

2. See opah.

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moonfish [ˈmuːnˌfɪʃ]

n pl -fishes, -fish

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of several deep-bodied silvery carangid fishes, occurring in warm and tropical American coastal waters

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various other round silvery fishes, such as the Indo-Pacific Monodactylus argenteus

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for opah

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	moonfish - any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, Selene setapinnis, Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish carangid, carangid fish - a percoid fish of the family Carangidae lookdown, lookdown fish, Selene vomer - similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead
	2.	moonfish - large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean Lampris regius, opah malacopterygian, soft-finned fish - any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii genus Lampris, Lampris - type genus of the Lampridae