four-eyed fish

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noun

a small, surface-swimming fish, Anableps anableps, inhabiting shallow, muddy streams of Mexico and Central America, having each eye divided, with the upper half adapted for seeing in air and the lower half for seeing in water.

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Also foureye fish

[fawr-ahy, fohr-ahy]. /ˈfɔrˌaɪ, ˈfoʊrˌaɪ/.

Also called anableps, four-eyes.

Words nearby four-eyed fish

four-cycle, four-deal bridge, four-dimensional, Fourdrinier, four-eyed, four-eyed fish, four-eyed opossum, four-eyes, four flush, fourflusher, fourfold

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How to use four-eyed fish in a sentence

When Chérif got out of prison, he worked at the fish counter of a supermarket.
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There are four photos there of representative presidential candidates.
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Yeah, the “Giant man-puppy” that is Gronkowski won't hold a sexual candle to the blue-eyed dreamboat.
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Four weeks after the injections, all 20 of the participants had developed the antibodies needed to stave off the infection.
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After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
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A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
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In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).
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Before the spinet a bench was placed about four feet below the keys, and I was put upon the bench.
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We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
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The Seven-score and four on the six middle Bells, the treble leading, and the tenor lying behind every change, makes good Musick.
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British Dictionary definitions for four-eyed fish

four-eyed fish

noun

either of two viviparous tropical American freshwater cyprinodont fishes, Anableps anableps or A. microlepis, that swim at the surface of the water and have half of each eye specialized for seeing in air, the other half for seeing in water

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