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Stizostedion Canadense
(gcide) | Sauger \Sau"ger\, n. (Zool.)
An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense);
-- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, {land
pike}, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.
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Stizostedion lucioperca
(gcide) | Zander \Zan"der\, n. [Cf. D. zand sand.] (Zool.)
A European pike perch (Stizostedion lucioperca) allied to
the wall-eye; -- called also sandari, sander, sannat,
schill, and zant.
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Stizostedion vitreum
(gcide) | Wall-eye \Wall"-eye`\, n. [See Wall-eyed.]
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1. An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or
whitish color; -- said usually of horses. --Booth.
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Note: Jonson has defined wall-eye to be "a disease in the
crystalline humor of the eye; glaucoma." But glaucoma
is not a disease of the crystalline humor, nor is
wall-eye a disease at all, but merely a natural
blemish. --Tully. In the north of England, as Brockett
states, persons are said to be wall-eyed when the white
of the eye is very large and distorted, or on one side.
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2. (Zool.)
(a) An American fresh-water food fish ({Stizostedion
vitreum}) having large and prominent eyes; -- called
also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and
wall-eyed perch.
(b) A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus).
(c) The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.
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genus stizostedion
(wn) | genus Stizostedion
n 1: pike-perches [syn: Stizostedion, genus Stizostedion] |
stizostedion vitreum
(wn) | Stizostedion vitreum
n 1: pike-like freshwater perches [syn: walleye, {walleyed
pike}, jack salmon, dory, Stizostedion vitreum] |
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