Bigeye
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any fish in the taxonomic family Priacanthidae, which have large eyes.
- 2 red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales wordnet
- 3 Any of certain fish or shark species identified by their large eyes, in particular bigeye tuna, Thunnus obesus.
"There were Port Jackson sharks with a brown back, a whitish belly, and eleven rows of teeth, bigeye sharks with necks marked by a large black spot encircled in white and resembling an eye, and Isabella sharks whose rounded snouts were strewn with dark speckles."
Example
More examples"There were Port Jackson sharks with a brown back, a whitish belly, and eleven rows of teeth, bigeye sharks with necks marked by a large black spot encircled in white and resembling an eye, and Isabella sharks whose rounded snouts were strewn with dark speckles."
Etymology
From big + eye.
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