HEADFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does headfish mean? 

• HEADFISH (noun)
  The noun HEADFISH has 1 sense:

1. among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters

  Familiarity information: HEADFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEADFISH (noun)

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Meaning:

Among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

headfish; mola; ocean sunfish; sunfish

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

plectognath; plectognath fish (tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines)

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

Mola lanceolata; sharptail mola (caudal fin has a central projection)

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

genus Mola (type genus of the Molidae)