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Definition of Goggler

1. n. A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle- eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra.

Definition of Goggler

1. Noun. A carangoid marine fish (''Trachurops crumenophthalmus'') with large, prominent eyes. ¹

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Definition of Goggler

1. one that goggles [n -S] - See also: goggles

Medical Definition of Goggler

1. A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes. Synonym: goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Goggler

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"It is widely distributed in tropical seas, and Is found on the Atlantic coast of the United States as far north as New England. Also called goggler. ..."

2. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1884)
"The flounder has become nearly or quite extinct here. It has no enemy that I know of except the war loon and kindred ducks—the goggler ..."

3. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"Among the Hawaiian Islands it is an abundant and important food-fish and is known as the akule. Its common names in American waters are goggler, big-eyed ..."

4. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"... the goggler, or big-eyed scad, ranges widely in the open sea and at Hawaii, as the Akule, is the most highly valued because most abundant of the ..."

5. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"... called in the Bermudas, where it is of som«? importance as a food-fish, the "goggler," or " Goggle-eyed Jack," and in Cuba the ..."

6. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States: Including by David Starr Jordan (1904)
"goggler. Eye very large, 3 in head, with very large adipose eyelid; scutes 40. Head 3£; depth 3£. D. VIII-1, 26. A. 11-1,22. L. 12. Warm seas. ..."

7. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America by David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert (1883)
"goggler; Big-eyed Scad. long-elongate, little compressed, the buck not elevated. 1I<- rather pointed, the lower jaw projecting; ..."

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