noun, plural ( especially collectively ) moon·fish ( especially referring to two or more kinds or species ) moon·fish·es.
1.
2.
the opah.
3.
any of various other rounded, silvery fishes.
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| —n , pl -fishes, -fish | |
| 1. | any of several deep-bodied silvery carangid fishes, occurring in warm and tropical American coastal waters |
| 2. | any of various other round silvery fishes, such as the Indo-Pacific Monodactylus argenteus |
| 3. | another name for opah |
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moonfish
any of several fishes of the order Perciformes, such as Vomer setapinnis of the family Carangidae, and Mene maculata, the sole member of the family Menidae.
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