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HORSEHEAD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does horsehead mean?
• HORSEHEAD (noun)
The noun HORSEHEAD has 1 sense:
1. any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
Familiarity information: HORSEHEAD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("horsehead" is a kind of...):
carangid; carangid fish (a percoid fish of the family Carangidae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horsehead"):
lookdown; lookdown fish; Selene vomer (similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead)
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