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Dollarfish

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A carangoid fish, Vomer sctipinnis: so named from the roundness and silvery color of the young. Also called moonfish (which see).
  • noun. A stromatoid fish, Stromateus triacanthus: so named from its round form and silvery color. Also called butter-fish and harvest-fish. See cut under butter-fish.
  • noun. A flat, disk-shaped echinoderm, Echinarachnius parma, found along the Atlantic coast. Also known as cake-urchin and sand-dollar.
  • noun. The John-dory, Zeus australis: so called from the mark on its side.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. small food fish (Poronotus triacanthus) of the Atlantic coast.
  • noun. any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies.
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  • noun. Peprilus triacanthus, the American butterfish.
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  • noun. any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
  • noun. small food fish of Atlantic coast
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