# white-eye
## English
### Etymology

From white +‎ eye.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

white-eye (countable and uncountable, plural white-eyes)
* (countable) Any of the passerine birds of the family Zosteropidae, native to Africa, Asia, and Australasia, typically having a ring of tiny white feathers around their eyes.
    Synonyms: zosteropid, silvereye
* (countable) A species of killifish (Oxyzygonectes dovii) of the family Anablepidae, native to Central America.
* (uncountable) A kind of very strong whiskey.

#### Derived terms

* Abyssinian white-eye
* African yellow white-eye
* Aldabra white-eye
* Ambon white-eye
* Anjouan white-eye
* Annobón white-eye
* ashy-bellied white-eye
* banded white-eye
* bare-eyed white-eye
* bare-ringed white-eye
* belted white-eye
* Biak white-eye
* bicoloured white-eye
* Bismarck white-eye
* black-capped white-eye
* black-crowned white-eye
* black-fronted white-eye
* black-headed white-eye
* black-masked white-eye
* black-ringed white-eye
* Bonin white-eye
* Bougainville white-eye
* bridled white-eye
* broad-ringed white-eye
* Buru white-eye
* canary white-eye
* Cape white-eye
* capped white-eye
* Caroline Islands white-eye
* chestnut-flanked white-eye
* chestnut-sided white-eye
* Christmas white-eye
* citrine white-eye
* Comoro white-eye
* cream-browed white-eye
* cream-throated white-eye
* crested white-eye
* dark-eyed white-eye
* dusky white-eye
* Ethiopian white-eye
* Everett's white-eye
* Faichuk white-eye
* Fiji white-eye
* Flores white-eye
* forest white-eye
* giant white-eye
* Gizo white-eye
* golden-bellied white-eye
* golden white-eye
* Grand Comore white-eye
* great Truk white-eye
* great Yap white-eye
* green-backed white-eye
* green-fronted white-eye
* green white-eye
* grey-brown white-eye
* grey-hooded white-eye
* grey-throated white-eye
* Guadalcanal white-eye
* hermit white-eye
* Heuglin's white-eye
* Hume's white-eye
* Indian white-eye
* islet white-eye
* Japanese white-eye
* Javan grey-throated white-eye
* Javan white-eye
* Karthala white-eye
* Kenya white-eye
* Kikuyu white-eye
* Kirk's white-eye
* Kolombangara white-eye
* Kosrae white-eye
* large Lifou white-eye
* Layard's white-eye
* lemon-bellied white-eye
* lemon-throated white-eye
* long-billed white-eye
* Lord Howe white-eye
* Louisiade white-eye
* lowland white-eye
* Malagasy white-eye
* Malaita white-eye
* Marianne white-eye
* Mauritius grey white-eye
* Mauritius olive white-eye
* Mayotte white-eye
* Mbulu white-eye
* Mees's white-eye
* Meratus white-eye
* Mindanao white-eye
* Moheli white-eye
* montane white-eye
* Morotai white-eye
* mountain white-eye
* Mount Karthala white-eye
* New Georgia white-eye
* New Guinea white-eye
* Norfolk white-eye
* northern yellow white-eye
* olive-colored white-eye
* olive white-eye
* Orange River white-eye
* oriental white-eye
* Oya Tabu white-eye
* Palau greater white-eye
* pale-bellied white-eye
* pale white-eye
* Papuan white-eye
* pearl-bellied white-eye
* Pemba white-eye
* plain white-eye
* Pohnpei white-eye
* Príncipe white-eye
* pygmy white-eye
* Ranongga white-eye
* Rennell white-eye
* Réunion grey white-eye
* Réunion olive white-eye
* robust white-eye
* Rota bridled white-eye
* Rota white-eye
* Samoan white-eye
* Sanford's white-eye
* Sangihe white-eye
* sangkar white-eye
* Santa Cruz white-eye
* São Tomé white-eye
* Seram white-eye
* Seychelles chestnut-sided white-eye
* Seychelles white-eye
* Seychelles yellow white-eye
* slender-billed white-eye
* small Lifou white-eye
* Socotra white-eye
* Solomons white-eye
* southern yellow white-eye
* south Pare white-eye
* splendid white-eye
* spot-breasted white-eye
* Sri Lanka white-eye
* streak-headed white-eye
* streaky-headed white-eye
* sulphur white-eye
* Sunda white-eye
* Swinhoe's white-eye
* Tagula white-eye
* Taita white-eye
* teardrop white-eye
* thick-billed white-eye
* Togian white-eye
* Truk white-eye
* typical white-eye
* Vanikoro white-eye
* Vanuatu white-eye
* Vella Lavella white-eye
* Wakatobi white-eye
* Wangi-wangi white-eye
* warbling white-eye
* white-breasted white-eye
* white-chested white-eye
* white-throated white-eye
* Yap olive white-eye
* yellow-billed white-eye
* yellow-browed white-eye
* yellow-fronted white-eye
* yellowish white-eye
* yellow-ringed white-eye
* yellow-throated white-eye
* yellow white-eye

#### Translations
### References

* “white-eye”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary