WALLEYE

walleye, walleyed pike, jack salmon, dory, Stizostedion vitreum

(noun) pike-like freshwater perches

walleye, divergent strabismus, exotropia

(noun) strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

walleye (plural walleyes or walleye)

(plural "walleyes") One or a pair of sideways-looking misaligned eyes.

(plural "walleyes") An unusually pale eye.

(plural "walleye" or "walleyes") A species of gamefish, Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes.

Synonyms

• (Sander vitreus): walleyed pike colored pike, yellow pike, pickerel, Stizostedion vitreum

Anagrams

• eyewall

Source: Wiktionary


Wall"-eye`, n. Etym: [See Wall-eyed.]

1. An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color;

– said usually of horses. Booth.

Note: Jonson has defined wall-eye to be "a disease in the crystalline humor of the eye; glaucoma." But glaucoma is not a disease of the crystalline humor, nor is wall-eye a disease at all, but merely a natural blemish. Tully. In the north of England, as Brockett states, persons are said to be wall-eyed when the white of the eye is very large and distorted, or on one side.

2. (Zoöl.) (a) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; -- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch. (b) A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus). (c) The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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