DOLLARFISH (dollarfishes)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: dollarfishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does dollarfish mean? 

• DOLLARFISH (noun)
  The noun DOLLARFISH has 2 senses:

1. small food fish of Atlantic coast

2. any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies

  Familiarity information: DOLLARFISH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOLLARFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small food fish of Atlantic coast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

dollarfish; Poronotus triacanthus

Hypernyms ("dollarfish" is a kind of...):

butterfish; stromateid; stromateid fish (small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines)

Holonyms ("dollarfish" is a member of...):

genus Poronotus; Poronotus (a genus of Stromateidae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Atlantic moonfish; dollarfish; horse-head; horsefish; horsehead; moonfish; Selene setapinnis

Hypernyms ("dollarfish" is a kind of...):

carangid; carangid fish (a percoid fish of the family Carangidae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dollarfish"):

lookdown; lookdown fish; Selene vomer (similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead)