Did you mayhaps mean barreled?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A small, deep-sea osmeriform fish of the family Opisthoproctidae, with barrel-shaped, tubular eyes which are generally directed upwards to detect the silhouettes of available prey.
Etymologies
- barrel + eye (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Using remotely piloted robots operating 2,600 feet deep, researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute discovered two surprising aspects of the "barreleye" fish named Macropinna microstoma.”
“Using remotely piloted robots operating 2,600 feet deep, discovered two surprising aspects of the "barreleye" fish named Macropinna microstoma.”
“barreleye" fish Macropinna microstoma was first described in 1939, marine biologists have known that its tubular eyes are very good at collecting light.”
“This is the Pacific barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma), and as you can see, it has a see-through head.”
“But the barreleye fish for its tubular, or barrel-shaped, eyes lost its eyelids even as its eyes were bulking up and becoming more powerful.”
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“We see the barreleye fish, whose eyes extend from its head on tubes, Anableps anableps, a fish with four eyes, and the mantis fish whose color vision is so acute, Dr. Knowlton writes, that it makes what we see look like it is "practically in black and white.”
“The barreleye fish eats jellyfish and has rotating eyes within its transparent head to protect them from stings.”
“However, Robison and Reisenbichler were extremely fortunate -- they were able to bring a net-caught barreleye to the surface alive, where it survived for several hours in a ship-board aquarium.”
“The barreleye fish, or Macropinna microstoma, has extremely light-sensitive eyes that can rotate within a transparent, fluid-filled shield on its head.”
“This face-on view of a barreleye shows its transparent shield lit up by the lights of MBARI's remotely operated vehicle Tiburon.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘barreleye’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
wetdreamablet, agnathan, ahi, ahuru, ahuruhuru, albacore, albicore, alec, alewife, allice, allis, amberjack and 840 more...
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It's a Fish
kelpfish, fatfin, dollarfish, barrelfish, palometa, poppy-fish, ballan-wrasse, sweetlips, bichir, finpike, bergall, cunner and 192 more...
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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Words + Phrases I Like
apotheosis, antipode, penumbra, umbra, bellatrix, zephyr, oblivion, nefarious, wicked, requiem, catalyst, ire and 89 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir It's a fish. Jan 2, 2012
bilby "The barreleye lives more than 2,000 feet (600 meters) beneath the ocean’s surface, where the water is almost inky."
- Macropinna microstoma, delightnature.com, 17 August 2009. Aug 23, 2009