purse-eyed
adjective
Designating the bigeye scad, Selar crumenophthalmus, a carangid fish of warm seas which has very large eyes that are almost covered with thick fatty tissue.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in George Shaw (1751–1813), natural historian. After scientific Latin crumenophthalmus, specific name.
- ridiculously
- ridiculousness
- riding
- riding association
- riding ballad
- riding bitt
- riding blanket
- riding block
- riding cable
- riding charges
- riding clerk
- riding cloth
- riding coat
- riding crop
- riding days
- riding establishment
- riding exercise
- riding gear
- riding groom
- riding habit
- riding hood
- riding house
- riding light
- riding master
- riding officer