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Noun: sand stargazer
  1. 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

Derived forms: sand stargazers

Type of: percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

Part of: Dactyloscopidae, family Dactyloscopidae

Encyclopedia: Sand stargazer