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  • noun. A marine carangid game fish (Selene vomer) of western Atlantic waters, having a compressed silvery body with long rays on the dorsal and anal fins and a steep frontal profile.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A carangoid fish, the moonfish or horsehead, Selene vomer. See cut under horsehead.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A fish (Selene vomer) similar to the moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead; it was also called moonfish at one time.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The moonfish.
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  • noun. similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead
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