Anableps
noun
An·a·bleps
ˈanəˌbleps
: a genus of tropical American saltwater and freshwater fishes comprising the four-eyed fishes, being closely related to the topminnows but constituting a separate family, and having the eyes divided into an upper and lower division by the growth of two processes of the iris across the pupil and a band of conjunctiva across the cornea, the upper part serving to see objects in the air, the lower part to see objects under water
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Greek anableps-, stem of anablepein to look up, from ana- + blepein to look
First Known Use
1804, in the meaning defined above