dollarfish

Definitions of dollarfish
  1. noun
    small food fish of Atlantic coast
    synonyms: Poronotus triacanthus
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    type of:
    butterfish, stromateid, stromateid fish
    small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
  2. noun
    any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
    synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, Selene setapinnis, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, moonfish
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    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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