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Starfish vs Moonfish - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between starfish and moonfish

is that starfish is any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach while moonfish is any of various flat, oval marine fish species.

starfish

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
  • (vulgar, slang, usually in translations of Japanese pornography) an anus. See also chocolate starfish.
  • (obsolete) Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
  • * 1755 , , trans. Isaac Kimbler, Explanation of the Plate of Uncommon Star Fish, Extracted from the Natural History of Norway
  • But the largest of the star-fish' kind is that sea monster called kruken, kraken or krabben. [...] As this enormous sea-animal in all probability may be reckoned of the polype, or of the ' star-fish , kind, it seems that the parts which are seen rising at its pleasure, and are called arms, are properly the tentacula, or feeding instruments, called horns as well as arms.

    Synonyms

    * (various echinoderms) sea star, asteroid

    See also

    * Starfish site English nouns with irregular plurals

    moonfish

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
  • ''Most moonseeds are silvery (hence their name), others yellowish
  • # Family
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  • # (Atlantic spadefish) ()
  • # Family Molidae ((ocean sunfish))
  • # The opahs in the family Lamprididae.