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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

ocean sunfish

–noun
a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
Also called headfish.


Origin:
1620–30

sharptail mola

[shahrp-teyl]
–noun
a fish, Masturus lanceolatus, related to the ocean sunfish but having a pointed tail.
Also called headfish.


Origin:
sharp + tail 1
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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
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