Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A carangoid fish, Vomer sctipinnis: so named from the roundness and silvery color of the young. Also called moonfish (which see).
  • noun A stromatoid fish, Stromateus triacanthus: so named from its round form and silvery color. Also called butter-fish and harvest-fish. See cut under butter-fish.
  • noun A flat, disk-shaped echinoderm, Echinarachnius parma, found along the Atlantic coast. Also known as cake-urchin and sand-dollar.
  • noun The John-dory, Zeus australis: so called from the mark on its side.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun small food fish (Poronotus triacanthus) of the Atlantic coast.
  • noun any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies.

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  • noun Peprilus triacanthus, the American butterfish.

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  • noun any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
  • noun small food fish of Atlantic coast

Etymologies

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dollar +‎ fish

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  • It's a fish, but it's also but the name is also applied to the echinoid called a sand dollar.

    January 1, 2012