Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A silvery freshwater fish of the family Hiodontidae, especially Hiodon tergisus of eastern North America.
- n. See moon blindness.
Wiktionary
- n. A primitive ray-finned fish of the family Hiodontidae.
Etymologies
- moon eye, from the silvery lustre of the eyes. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We averaged about 25km a day which usually gave us enough time to scout and run all the runnable rapids CI to some CIII and catch a few fish - mostly cat and a few pickerel with one night of mooneye.”
“The species continued to roll in: short - and long-nosed gar, shovelnose sturgeon, mooneye.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mooneye’.
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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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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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The word collector
My collection of words that are intriguing, but don't fit my other lists.
snailery, aplasia, postulant, aigrette, caravel, frigate, capeskin, suffusion, schist, varlet, sepulchral, anisotropy and 320 more...
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trout, trout, trout!
fish that are fun to say
trout, gar, walleye, mooneye, arctic char, sockeye salmon, chum, freshwater drum, three-spine stick..., eel, waccamaw killfish, shad and 22 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mooneye.
hernesheir Piscine family Hiodontidae. Jun 15, 2010