moonfish
- noun
- /ˈmuːnˌfɪʃ/
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pez luna
- Don't gawp at her like a dead moonfish, and don't scratch and spit and pick your nose. "I'll be very respectful, Auntie Adumar," I said.
Examples
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Martin had once asked a waiter whom he remembered from the year before, a stoop-shouldered man with a face as bloated as a moonfish, if a girl with such a perfect voice was well known.
Fiction book (1994) -
There are our groupers, and moonfish, and sheepshead.
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Most of these are animals, plants, rocks, or diseases: moon blindness, mooneye, moonfish, moonflower, moonlet, moonquake, moonseed, moon shell.
Fiction book (1991) -
The chef prepared a delicious dish featuring moonfish caught that morning.
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During our trip to the ocean, we spotted a shiny moonfish swimming near the surface.
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At the aquarium, the moonfish captivated visitors with its unusual shape and color.
Synonyms
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A flat silver fish that lives in warm seas
A silvery sea fish with a very flat body often called the Atlantic moonfish
A silvery fish with a very flat body that lives in the Atlantic Ocean
A small silvery flat fish like a butterfish that lives near the coast
A small sea fish with a flat silver body like a seahorse
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Moonfish comes from the parts moon + fish. The moon part suggests 'round' because this fish has a flat, round body, so its name points to its moon-like shape.