Horsefish

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The moonfish (Selene setipinnis).
  • noun. The sauger.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The moonfish.
  • noun. The sauger.
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  • noun. any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
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