white-eye
white-eye noun: 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.

Noun
white-eye (countable and uncountable, plural white-eyes)
- 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
- A species of killifish (Oxyzygonectes dovii) of the family Anablepidae, native to Central America.
- A kind of very strong whiskey.
Synonyms of white-eye
Forms of white-eye
| plural | white-eyes |
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Origin of white-eye
From white + eye.
Words formed from white-eye
- 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
Questions about white-eye
- What does white-eye mean?
- White-eye means 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.
- What part of speech is white-eye?
- White-eye is a noun.
- What is the plural of white-eye?
- The plural of white-eye is white-eyes.
Words near white-eye in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: white-eye (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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