"moonfish" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: moonfish [plural], moonfishes [plural]
Etymology: moon + fish, from the silvery colour, parallel to the synonymous Dutch cognate maanvis. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|moon|fish}} moon + fish, {{m|nl|maanvis}} maanvis Head templates: {{en-noun|moonfish|+}} moonfish (plural moonfish or moonfishes)
  1. Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
    Family Monodactylidae (fingerfishes, silver angelfishes)
    Sense id: en-moonfish-en-noun--QL028Nu
  2. Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
    Mene maculata, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific
    Sense id: en-moonfish-en-noun-UpKPAy2t
  3. Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
    Most species of genus Selene
    Sense id: en-moonfish-en-noun-OGTxEEm~
  4. Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
    Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber)
    Sense id: en-moonfish-en-noun-WZD~Z~Ff
  5. Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
    Family Molidae (ocean sunfish)
    Sense id: en-moonfish-en-noun-uvBKKmsU
  6. Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
    The opahs in the family Lamprididae.
    Sense id: en-moonfish-en-noun-8yjQ6-xY
  7. Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
    The cusk (Brosme brosme), a North Atlantic cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, the only species in its genus.
    Categories (lifeform): Acanthuroid fish, Gadiforms, Jackfish, Lampriform fish, Percoid fish, Tetraodontiforms, Toothcarps Synonyms (Brosme brosme): brismak, brosmius, torsk, tusk
    Sense id: en-moonfish-en-noun-Z5L4xPJT Disambiguation of Acanthuroid fish: 11 11 11 11 11 11 24 11 Disambiguation of Gadiforms: 11 11 11 11 11 11 22 11 Disambiguation of Jackfish: 10 10 10 10 10 10 29 10 Disambiguation of Lampriform fish: 11 11 11 11 11 11 21 11 Disambiguation of Percoid fish: 11 11 11 11 11 11 21 11 Disambiguation of Tetraodontiforms: 11 11 11 11 11 11 22 11 Disambiguation of Toothcarps: 11 11 11 11 11 11 22 11 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 13 11 6 16 9 29 10 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 4 16 9 4 9 5 41 11 Disambiguation of 'Brosme brosme': 0 0 0 0 0 0 99 0
  8. Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
    The southern platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus)
    Synonyms (Xiphophorus maculatus): common platy
    Sense id: en-moonfish-en-noun-y7JriqRP Disambiguation of 'Xiphophorus maculatus': 2 3 13 2 13 6 12 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (any of various flat, oval marine fish species): риба-луна (riba-luna) [feminine] (Bulgarian), bilongbilong (taxonomic: Mene maculata) (Cebuano), maanvis [masculine] (Dutch), sélène [feminine] (French), tabas (taxonomic: Mene maculata) (Tagalog)
Disambiguation of 'any of various flat, oval marine fish species': 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for moonfish meaning in All languages combined (6.3kB)

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