Found 2 items, similar to lookdown.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: lookdown
lookdown
n : similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated
forehead [syn:
lookdown fish,
Selene vomer]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: lookdown
lookdown
\look"down`\, look-down
\look"-down`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A fish (
Selene vomer) similar to the moonfish but with eyes
high on the truncated forehead; it was also called moonfish
at one time.
Syn:
Selene vomer.
[WordNet 1.5]
Moonfish
\Moon"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) An American marine fish (
Vomer setipennis); -- called
also
bluntnosed shiner,
horsefish, and
sunfish.
(b) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (
Selene vomer); --
called also
lookdown, and
silver moonfish.
(c) The mola. See
Sunfish, 1.
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