lookdown

Noun

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated foreheadSynonyms: lookdown fishSelene vomer
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]


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]
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