Found 1 hit - Term: wall-eyed perch, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wall-eye \wall"-eye`\, n. see wall-eyed.
1913 webster
1. an eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or
whitish color; -- said usually of horses. --booth.
1913 webster
note: jonson has defined wall-eye to be "a disease in the
crystalline humor of the eye; glaucoma." but glaucoma
is not a disease of the crystalline humor, nor is
wall-eye a disease at all, but merely a natural
blemish. --tully. in the north of england, as brockett
states, persons are said to be wall-eyed when the white
of the eye is very large and distorted, or on one side.
1913 webster
2. zool.
a an american fresh-water food fish stizostedion
vitreum having large and prominent eyes; -- called
also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and
wall-eyed perch.
b a california surf fish holconotus argenteus.
c the alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.
1913 webster
see also:
wall-eyed stizostedion vitreum glasseye pike perch yellow pike wall-eyed perch
holconotus argenteus wall-eyed herring
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pike+perch_pag1.html luce definition from the Dictionary of Words Online
... grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and yellow pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the wall-eye. see wall-eye ... pike perch zool., any fresh-water fish of the genus stizostedion formerly lucioperca. see wall-eye, and sauger. pike ...
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