lookdown fish

noun

variants or less commonly lookdown

plural -s

: any of several deep-bodied compressed silvery carangid fishes comprising a genus (Argyreiosus) widely distributed in warm seas and having high truncated foreheads

Word History

Etymology

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First Known Use

circa 1882, in the meaning defined above

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