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Headfish - 3 dictionary results

head⋅fish

[hed-fish]
–noun, plural (especially collectively) -fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -fish⋅es.
1. ocean sunfish.
2. sharptail mola.

Origin:
1835–45, Americanism; head + fish
headfish

noun
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 [syn: ocean sunfish

Headfish

Head`fish"\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The sunfish (Mola).

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