vomer setipennis

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vomer setipennis - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Moonfish \Moon"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
     (a) An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called
         also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.
     (b) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); --
         called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.
     (c) The mola. See Sunfish, 1.
         [1913 Webster]