Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several small tropical marine fishes of the family Priacanthidae, having large eyes and reddish scales.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fish of the genus Priacanthus and family Priacanthidæ: so called from its very large round eyes.
Wiktionary
- n. Any fish in the taxonomic family Priacanthidae, which have large eyes.
- n. Any of certain fish or shark species identified by their large eyes, in particular bigeye tuna, Thunnus obesus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A fish of the genus Priacanthus, remarkable for the large size of the eye.
WordNet 3.0
- n. red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales
Etymologies
- big + eye. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In this case it came in the form of a slender light green coloured pelagic fish called bigeye tuna in the Pacific are also just about on the brink.”
“The Coral Triangle contains spawning and nursery grounds and migratory routes for the commercially viable yellowfin tuna, as well as species such as bigeye, skipjack and albacore, producing more than 40% of the total catch for the Western Central Pacific region, and representing more than 20% of the total global catch.”
“These competitors have realized that selling species such as bigeye tuna officially listed as "high risk for extinction in the wild" carries a significant reputational risk, as well as threatening the very basis on which their business turns a profit.”
The Wall Street Journal: Preserving Tuna Populations for Future Generations
“A big bluefin or bigeye will fight you for an hour and let you get him to the boat then pull out 300 yards of line just to mess with you.”
“But so many of the larger carnivorous fish, like bluefin, yellowfin, or bigeye, have such high levels of mercury in their bodies that has built up over their lifetime – not good for us humans eating them.”
“Yes | No | Report from joe wrote 2 years 3 weeks ago bigeye snapper key west”
“Common fishes include the bigeye, steelcolor, and redfin shiners, the orangethroat and redfin darters, and suckers including the creek chubsucker, golden and black redhorses, river carpsucker, spotted sucker, and smallmouth buffalo.”
“Streams support a distinctive group of species not widely found elsewhere in Ecoregion 27, including the bigeye shiner, southern redbelly dace, stoneroller, black and golden redhorses, spotted bass, logperch, and orangethroat darter.”
“Other common fishes include the orangethroat darter, stippled darter, greenside darter, fantail darter, northern hogsucker, white sucker, Ozark minnow, cardinal shiner, and bigeye shiner.”
“Offshore tunas (yellowfin, skipjack, and bigeye) are caught mainly by long-distance fleets from Korea, Japan, USA, and Venezuela.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bigeye’.
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FUN - fish can be...
Compound adjectives - based on the FAO ASFIS list of waterborne species.
arc-eye, U-mark, U-spot, X-ray, Y-prickleback, ox-eyed, big-claw, big-eye, big-eyed, big-head, big-lip, big-scale and 509 more...
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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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PECH - marine species
Alaska plaice, African cuttlefish, Alaska pollock, Alaska pollack, walleye pollock, alewife, gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, allis shad, American angler, goosefish and 994 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...
Tweets
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hernesheir Fish of the genus Priacanthus, who possess, well, big eyes. Jun 15, 2010