Search Result for "selene_vomer":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Horsehead \Horse"head`\, n. (Zool.) The silver moonfish (Selene vomer). [1913 Webster]
The 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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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