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Definition: Moonfish |
MoonfishNoun1. Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies. 2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: MoonfishSynonyms: dollarfish (n), horsefish (n), horsehead (n), opah (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Moonfish |
| English words defined with "moonfish": Atlantic moonfish ♦ lookdown, lookdown fish ♦ Selene vomer. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Plate 98. The Silver Moonfish or "Look-down." Selene argentea, Lacepede. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
Expressions using "moonfish": Atlantic moonfish ♦ silver moonfish. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
moonfish | 39 |
moonfish restaurant | 6 |
moonfish orlando | 3 |
moonfish orlando restaurant | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "moonfish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | plettet månefisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gevlekte maanvis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kirveskala. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | musso, tusk, torsk, lure, loquette, brosme, assiette, \MOO. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Fleckenmondfisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μπλε φεγγαρόψαρο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pesce luna (ocean sunfish, sharp-tail sunfish), luna blu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oonfishmay peixe-roda. (various references) pez luna de la India. (various references) indisk bukfisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Brosme brosme, Brosmius brosme, lambris, Lampris guttatus, Lampris luna, Mene maculata, Mene maculata (Bloch and Schneider), mole commun, Octhagoriscus mola, opah, VE lampris, VE Mola mola, VE poisson lune. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "moonfish": moonfishes. (additional references) | |
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"Moonfish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: moenich, Muinish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-h-i-m-n-o-o-s" | |
-1 letter: moonish. | |
-2 letters: foison, monish, simoon. | |
-3 letters: finos, fohns, foins, homos, hoofs, infos, monos, moons, nomoi, nomos, shoon. | |
-4 letters: fino, fins, fish, fohn, foin, fons, hins, hisn, homo, hons, hoof, info, ions, mhos, miso, mono, mons, moon, moos, mosh, nims, noms, nosh, ohms, oohs, shim, shin, shmo, shoo, sinh, soon. | |
-5 letters: fin, foh, fon, him, hin. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-h-i-m-n-o-o-s" | |
+2 letters: moonfishes. | |
+5 letters: fashionmonger. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 6F 6E 66 69 73 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- --- -. ..-. .. ... .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01101111 01101110 01100110 01101001 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o o n f i s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 006F 006E 0066 0069 0073 0068 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4781818072758574 |
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