noun, plural (especially collectively) moon·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) moon·fish·es.
- Also called horsefish, horsehead. any of several silvery marine fishes of the genus Selene, having a very compressed body and inhabiting shallow coastal waters.
- the opah.
- any of various other rounded, silvery fishes.
noun plural -fishes or -fish
- any of several deep-bodied silvery carangid fishes, occurring in warm and tropical American coastal waters
- any of various other round silvery fishes, such as the Indo-Pacific Monodactylus argenteus
- another name for opah