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Similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead
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lookdown
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Lookdown usually refers to a single species of fish, Selene vomer Lookdown may also refer to the following fish: Selene brevoortii , known as the Airfin lookdown, Hairfin lookdown, or Mexican lookdown Lookdown dory , Cyttus traversi
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n. The moonfish.
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n. similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead [syn: lookdown fish , Selene vomer ]
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moonfish \Moon"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An American marine fish ( Vomer setipennis ); -- called also bluntnosed shiner , horsefish , and sunfish . A broad, thin, silvery marine fish ( Selene vomer ); -- called also lookdown , and silver moonfish . The mola. ...
Usage examples of lookdown.
Then he lay down and carefully put himself in such a position that he could lookdown the hole.
Conforming to the latest stealth technology developed at the Anger Institute, its fuselage, wings, and low-profile V-shaped stabilators consisted of a series of gentle curves none of which reflected enough radar to be visible even on phased-array or lookdown radar systems.
Behind, the SAM shot over and past the ravine, then started up into a broad, high loop as it attempted to reaccess its target, its lookdown sensors searching for the aircar.
He lowered his face and half a dozen bright silver Mexican lookdowns, their mouths drawn into frowns, slid by, their bodies suddenly turning into knife blades, nearly vanishing, as they wheeled around and faced him head-on.
They watched a little flurry of coming and going before them-a parrotfish, then a royal gramma and a queen trigger, then the lookdowns reappeared, gliding past.