walleye — ONAD

walleye /ˈwôlī, ˈwɔlaɪ

▸ noun

1 an eye with a streaked or opaque white iris.

▪ an eye directed abnormally outward.

2 a North American pikeperch with large, opaque silvery eyes. It is a commercially valuable food fish and a popular sporting fish.

Stizostedion vitreum, family Percidae.

– DERIVATIVES
walleyed /ˈwôlˌīd, ˈwɔlˌaɪd

/ adjective

– ORIGIN early 16th century : back-formation from earlier wall-eyed, from Old Norse vagleygr; related to Icelandic vagl ‘film over the eye’.