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mooneye†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a freshwater fish, Hiodon tergisus, related to the goldeye and found in the Lower Great Lakes.
See: goldeye
Quotations
1866
A fish of another family, which is exceedingly abundant in the Upper Lakes, and is becoming in many other parts of the country, is the so-called "Lake herring," otherwise Shiner, Moon-eye, or Shad-waiter.
1958
The mooneye does not smoke well and is of little commercial value.