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BIGEYE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bigeye mean?
• BIGEYE (noun)
The noun BIGEYE has 1 sense:
1. red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales
Familiarity information: BIGEYE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("bigeye" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Holonyms ("bigeye" is a member of...):
genus Priacanthus; Priacanthus (type genus of the Priacanthidae)
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