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GREENEYE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does greeneye mean? 

GREENEYE (noun)
  The noun GREENEYE has 1 sense:

1. bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green lusterplay

  Familiarity information: GREENEYE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GREENEYE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)

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

Chlorophthalmidae; family Chlorophthalmidae (small family of soft-finned bottom-dwellers with large eyes; relatives of lizardfishes)


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