GOLDENEYE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does goldeneye mean? 

• GOLDENEYE (noun)
  The noun GOLDENEYE has 2 senses:

1. a variety of green lacewing

2. large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions

  Familiarity information: GOLDENEYE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOLDENEYE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A variety of green lacewing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

golden-eyed fly; goldeneye

Hypernyms ("goldeneye" is a kind of...):

chrysopid; green lacewing; stink fly (pale green unpleasant-smelling lacewing fly having carnivorous larvae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Bucephela clangula; goldeneye; whistler

Hypernyms ("goldeneye" is a kind of...):

duck (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "goldeneye"):

Barrow's goldeneye; Bucephala islandica (North American goldeneye diving duck)

Holonyms ("goldeneye" is a member of...):

Bucephala; genus Bucephala (buffleheads and goldeneyes)