Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A silvery freshwater fish (Hiodon tergisus) of central and eastern North America, having large round eyes.
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- noun A
primitive ray-finned fish of the family Hiodontidae.
Etymologies
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moon eye, from the silvery lustre of the eyes.
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Examples
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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.
Archive 2008-09-01 Dave 2008
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The species continued to roll in: short - and long-nosed gar, shovelnose sturgeon, mooneye.
JSOnline.com 2010
hernesheir commented on the word mooneye
Piscine family Hiodontidae.
June 15, 2010