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stargazer
(encz) | stargazer,hvězdář n: Zdeněk Brož |
Stargazer
(gcide) | Stargazer \Star"gaz`er\ (-g[=a]z`[~e]r), n.
1. One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in
derision or contempt, an astronomer.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zool.) Any one of several species of spiny-rayed marine
fishes belonging to Uranoscopus, Astroscopus, and
allied genera, of the family Uranoscopidae. The common
species of the Eastern United States are {Astroscopus
anoplus}, and Astroscopus guttatus. So called from the
position of the eyes, which look directly upward.
[1913 Webster] |
stargazer
(wn) | stargazer
n 1: someone indifferent to the busy world; "in the Odyssey
Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence"
[syn: lotus-eater, stargazer]
2: a physicist who studies astronomy [syn: astronomer,
uranologist, stargazer]
3: heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top
of the head |
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sand stargazer
(encz) | sand stargazer, n: |
stargazer
(encz) | stargazer,hvězdář n: Zdeněk Brož |
sand stargazer
(wn) | sand stargazer
n 1: small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North
America and South America having eyes on stalks atop head;
they burrow in sand to await prey |
stargazer
(wn) | stargazer
n 1: someone indifferent to the busy world; "in the Odyssey
Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence"
[syn: lotus-eater, stargazer]
2: a physicist who studies astronomy [syn: astronomer,
uranologist, stargazer]
3: heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top
of the head |
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