SAND STARGAZER

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Meaning:

Small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North America and South America having eyes on stalks atop head; they burrow in sand to await prey

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sand stargazer" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Holonyms ("sand stargazer" is a member of...):

Dactyloscopidae; family Dactyloscopidae (sand stargazers)

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