dollarfish

noun

1

: a small marine butterfish (Poronotus triacanthus) of the family Stromateidae with a laterally compressed body common in summer on the Atlantic coast of the northern and middle U.S.

called also harvest fish

2

: lookdown

Word History

Etymology

so called from its shape and the silver color of the young

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