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
• Hypernyms: ↑plectognath, ↑plectognath fish
• Hyponyms: ↑sharptail mola, ↑Mola lanceolata
• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Mola
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noun : a large usually gray or brown marine fish (Mola mola) that has a deep compressed body truncated behind, no pelvic fins, and very long dorsal and anal fins nearly adjoining the short caudal fin and that is widely distributed in warm and temperate seas; also : a closely related fish (Masturus lanceolatus)
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a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins. Also called headfish.
[1620-30]
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ocean sunfish,
Useful english dictionary. 2012.