Look-down

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lookdown
       n : similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated
           forehead [syn: {lookdown fish}, {Selene vomer}]