walleye

English

Marty Feldman - an actor with walleyes

A fisherman and his walleyes

Etymology

Back-formation from walleyed.

Noun

walleye (plural walleyes or walleye)

1. (plural "walleyes") One or a pair of sideways-looking misaligned eyes.
2. (plural "walleyes") An unusually pale eye.
3. (plural "walleye" or "walleyes") A species of gamefish, Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes.

Synonyms

• (Sander vitreus): walleyed pike colored pike, yellow pike, pickerel, Stizostedion vitreum

Derived terms

• walleye chop
• walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus

 

Translations

sideways-looking misaligned eye

• Afrikaans: divergente strabisme
• Dutch: divergent strabisme n
• Finnish: kiero silmä
• Italian: strabismo divergente m
• Russian: косогла́зие (ru) n (kosoglázije) (strabismus)

unusually pale eye

• Russian: бельмо́ (ru) n (belʹmó) (leucoma), глаз с бельмо́м m (glaz s belʹmóm)

Sander vitreus

• Dutch: breedbekbaars (nl) m, Amerikaanse snoekbaars m
• Finnish: valkosilmäkuha, hietakuha
• French: doré jaune (fr) m
• German: Glasaugenbarsch m
• Irish: glórshúil
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} occhiogrigio m
• Russian: светлопёрый суда́к m (svetlopjóryj sudák)
• Swedish: glasögongös, gäddabborre

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