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Noun: stargazer  'staa(r),gey-zu(r)
  1. Someone indifferent to the busy world
    "in the Odyssey Homer tells of stargazers who live in dreamy indolence";
    - lotus-eater
     
  2. (astronomy) a physicist who studies astronomy
    - astronomer, uranologist
     
  3. A heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurking fish, with eyes on flattened top of the head

Derived forms: stargazers

Type of: daydreamer, percoid, percoid fish, percoidean, physicist, woolgatherer

Part of: family Uranoscopidae, Uranoscopidae

Encyclopedia: Stargazer