Crossword clues for lookdown
The Collaborative International Dictionary
lookdown \look"down`\, look-down \look"-down`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
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. See Sunfish, 1.
Wiktionary
n. The moonfish.
WordNet
n. similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead [syn: lookdown fish, Selene vomer]
Wikipedia
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
The lookdown (Selene vomer) is a game fish of the Carangidae family. It was first described in 1758 by the "father of taxonomy", Carolus Linnaeus, in the 10th edition of his book Systema Naturae.
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.