Mola (Noun)
Meaning
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.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Ocean sunfish or mola can be found in the temperate and tropical waters of the world.
- A large mola, over three meters long, was spotted by the sailors near the surface of the water.
- Marine biologists studied the feeding habits of mola, revealing a diet mainly consisting of jellyfish.
- A team of divers came across an enormous mola that weighed nearly 2,300 kilograms in the Pacific Ocean.
- Scientists warn that pollution poses a significant threat to the well-being of mola, given their diet consists of mainly jellyfish.