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wall·eye  (wôl)

n.

1. pl. walleye or wall·eyes A freshwater food and game fish (Stizostedium vitreum) of North America, having large staring eyes. Also called dory², walleyed pike.

2.

a. Exotropia.

b. An eye affected with exotropia. Often used in the plural.

3. An eye with a light-colored iris or white or opaque cornea.

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[Back-formation from walleyed.]

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walleye [ˈwɔːlˌaɪ]

n pl -eyes, -eye

1. (Medicine / Pathology) a divergent squint

2. (Medicine / Pathology) opacity of the cornea

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Physiology) an eye having a white or light-coloured iris

4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) (in some collies) an eye that is particoloured white and blue

5. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Also called walleyed pike a North American pikeperch, Stizostedion vitreum, valued as a food and game fish

6. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various other fishes having large staring eyes

[back formation from earlier walleyed, from Old Norse vagleygr, from vage, perhaps: a film over the eye (compare Swedish vagel sty in the eye) + -eygr -eyed, from auga eye; modern form influenced by wall]

walleyed  adj

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	walleye - strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward divergent strabismus, exotropia squint, strabismus - abnormal alignment of one or both eyes
	2.	walleye - pike-like freshwater perches         jack salmon, Stizostedion vitreum, walleyed pike, dory pike perch, pike-perch - any of several pike-like fishes of the perch family blue pickerel, blue pike, blue pikeperch, blue walleye, Strizostedion vitreum glaucum - variety inhabiting the Great Lakes