selene vomer

1. 1.

   similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead

   Synonymslookdownlookdown fish

   Broadermoonfish

Questions about selene vomer

What does selene vomer mean?

selene vomer means "similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead".

What is another word for selene vomer?

Close synonyms include lookdown, lookdown fish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is selene vomer a common word?

selene vomer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.