variants:
or less commonly lookdown
plural -s
Definition of lookdown fish
: any of several deep-bodied compressed silvery carangid fishes comprising a genus (Argyreiosus) widely distributed in warm seas and having high truncated foreheads
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The first known use of lookdown fish was circa 1882
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