bigeye
any of several silver and red fishes of the family Priacanthidae, found in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean and in the West Indies, having a short, flattened body and large eyes.
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How to use bigeye in a sentence
Widespread occurrence of the bigeye shiner in this area seems surprising.
Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties, Kansas | Artie L. MetcalfThere are numerous records of the bigeye shiner from extreme eastern Oklahoma.
Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties, Kansas | Artie L. Metcalf
British Dictionary definitions for bigeye
/ (ˈbɪɡˌaɪ) /
any tropical or subtropical red marine percoid fish of the family Priacanthidae, having very large eyes and rough scales
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