Horsefish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Horsefish \Horse"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
        (a) The moonfish ({Selene setipinnis}).
        (b) The sauger.
            [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Moonfish \Moon"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
     (a) An American marine fish ({Vomer setipennis}); -- called
         also {bluntnosed shiner}, {horsefish}, and {sunfish}.
     (b) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish ({Selene vomer}); --
         called also {lookdown}, and {silver moonfish}.
     (c) The mola. See {Sunfish}, 1.
         [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  horsefish
       n : any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
           [syn: {moonfish}, {Atlantic moonfish}, {horsehead}, {horse-head},
            {dollarfish}, {Selene setapinnis}]