bigeye
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.66 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of certain fish or shark species identified by their large eyes, in particular bigeye tuna, Thunnus obesus.
Example Sentences
- "There were Port Jackson sharks with a brown back, a whitish belly, and eleven rows of teeth, bigeye sharks with necks marked by a large black spot encircled in white and resembling an eye, and Isabella sharks whose rounded snouts were strewn with dark speckles."
- "The relatively large eyes may enable the bigeye to feed at lower light intensity than other tunas."
- "The percentages of bigeye in the catches were relatively high during the early to mid 1950s, but then levelled off at less than 5 percent of the total catches."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
bigeyes (plural)
big-eye (alternative)