lookdown

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lookdown - 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]

  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]

lookdown - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  lookdown
      n 1: similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated
           forehead [syn: lookdown, lookdown fish, Selene vomer]