goggle-eye
English
editEtymology
editNamed for its prominent eyes.
Noun
editgoggle-eye (plural goggle-eyes)
- One of two or more species of American freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae.
- The warmouth, Lepomis gulosus, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters.
- Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley.
- A fish, the goggler, Selar crumenophthalmus.
Synonyms
edit- (warmouth): Chaenobryttus antistius, Chaenobryttus gulosus
References
edit- “goggle-eye”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.