goggle-eye

English

Etymology

Named for its prominent eyes.

Noun

goggle-eye (plural goggle-eyes)

  1. One of two or more species of American freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae.
    1. The warmouth, Lepomis gulosus, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters.
    2. Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley.
  2. A fish, the goggler, Selar crumenophthalmus.

Synonyms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for goggle-eye in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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