Opaleye
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Opaleye is a noun meaning A fish, Girella nigricans, a species of sea chub found in the Eastern Pacific.
Meaning
A fish, Girella nigricans, a species of sea chub found in the Eastern Pacific.
Example Sentences
Young opaleyes, however, always lived in tidepools.
Opaleye and halfmoon are part of the incidental catch of the coastal purse seine fleet and are sold as "perch" in the fresh fish market (Fitch and Lavenberg 1971). Annual landings of opaleye average about 2½ tons with a maximum of 12 tons in 1973,[…].
1966, D. W. Kelley (editor), Fish Bulletin 133: Ecological Studies of the Sacramento–San Joaquin Estuary, Part 1, California Department of Fish and Game, page 147, Usually, adult opaleye are abundant about inshore rocky areas (from the surf zone to depths of 80 feet) and nearly every individual examined has its digestive tract packed with algae.
Word Forms
- opaleyes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include greenfish, goggle-eye, glasseye, barreleye, oxeye, goggler.
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