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lookdown
[look-doun]
noun
a silvery carangid fish of the genus Selene, of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and eyes placed high on the truncated forehead.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of lookdown1
Example Sentences
“Devastated. Like I lookdown at my phone and I see the little white face, and I’m just like ‘I’m going to be late.’
Yet lookdown at the undulating landscape below the village and you will see a carpet of green.
Scientists already suspected that silvery fish like the lookdown and the bigeye scad use their skin as camouflage, reflecting light away to be less conspicuous.
A lookdown, a transparent silver fish, stared back with dark, eerie eyes.
Of the fish they studied, two species called the lookdown and the bigeye scad emerged as camouflage champions.
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