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dollarfish

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: dollarfish

1
n
small food fish of Atlantic coast
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n
any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: dollarfish
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n small food fish of Atlantic coast

Synonyms:
Poronotus triacanthus
Type of:
butterfish, stromateid, stromateid fish
small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
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n any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies

Synonyms:
Atlantic moonfish, Selene setapinnis, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, moonfish
Types:
Selene vomer, lookdown, lookdown fish
similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead
Type of:
carangid, carangid fish
a percoid fish of the family Carangidae
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