1.
[syn: lookdown, lookdown fish, Selene vomer]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Horsehead \Horse"head`\, n. (Zool.)
The silver moonfish (Selene vomer).
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
lookdown \look"down`\, look-down \look"-down`\, n. (Zool.)
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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Moonfish \Moon"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
(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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Selene vomer
n 1: similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated
forehead [syn: lookdown, lookdown fish, Selene vomer]