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wall⋅eye

[wawl-ahy]
–noun, plural -eyes, (especially collectively for 1, 2) -eye.
1. Also called walleyed pike, jack salmon. a large game fish, Stizostedion vitreum, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of northeastern North America; pikeperch.
2. any of various other fishes having large, staring eyes.
3. an eye characteristic of a walleyed person or animal.
4. (initial capital letter) Military. a series of television-guided bombs with high-explosive warheads, in production since the 1960s.

Origin:
1515–25; back formation from walleyed
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Main Entry: wall·eye
Pronunciation: 'wo-"lI
Function: noun
1 a : an eye with a bluish white iris b : an eye with an opaquewhite cornea
2 a : strabismus in which the eye turns outward away from the nose called also exotropia; —compare CROSS-EYE 1 b wall·eyes /-"lIz/ pl : eyes affected with divergent strabismus
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walleye wall·eye (wôl'ī')
n.

  1. Absence of color in the iris.

  2. The condition of having a dense white opacity of the cornea.

  3. See exotropia.

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