sand stargazer

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   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

   Broaderpercoid fish

   Part ofDactyloscopidae

Questions about sand stargazer

What does sand stargazer mean?

sand stargazer means "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".

Is sand stargazer a common word?

sand stargazer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.