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HORSE-HEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horse-head mean? 

HORSE-HEAD (noun)
  The noun HORSE-HEAD has 1 sense:

1. any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodiesplay

  Familiarity information: HORSE-HEAD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HORSE-HEAD (noun)


Sense 1

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 ("horse-head" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horse-head"):

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


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