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Definition of Headfish
1. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Plectognath, Plectognath Fish
Group relationships: Genus Mola
Specialized synonyms: Mola Lanceolata, Sharptail Mola
Definition of Headfish
1. n. The sunfish (Mola).
Definition of Headfish
1. a marine fish [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Headfish
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Headfish
Literary usage of Headfish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of Hawaii: Being an Account of the Hawaiian People, the by William Alanson Bryan (1915)
"The headfish.26 though much rarer, is equally striking and has been classed ...
The headfish is known to the Hawaiian fisherman as the "king of all the ..."
2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"When protected by scales the skin is usually thin and tender; when unprotected
it may be ossified, as in the sea-horse; horny, as in the headfish; leathery, ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"313), Professor George H. Parker has a valuable study of the blood vessels of
the heart of the headfish or sunfish (Mo/a mo/a). He finds that, unlike most ..."
4. The Story of the Fishes by George Robert Charles Herbert Pembroke, James Newton Baskett, George Henry Kingsley (1899)
"18 on page 3(>), ribbon-fishes, etc., are mere straps and strings, and the headfish
and hair-fin and others are really wider than long. ..."
5. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... Mola mola, one of the most remarkable among fishes, known as sunfish, headfish,
mola, and pez luna, and found in most warm seas. ..."
6. The Story of the Fishes by James Newton Baskett (1899)
"... 'em," can strikingly affect the shape of the fish by not being present or
scarcely present, as in the headfish noted. While we are on this topic we had ..."
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