Definitions for Anableps

Anableps an·a·bleps

Spelling: [an-uh-bleps]
IPA: /ˈæn əˌblɛps/

Anableps is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 302 anagrams from letters in Anableps (aabelnps).

Definitions for Anableps

noun

  1. four-eyed fish.

Origin of Anableps

1777; New Latin, the genus name, coinage based on Greek anablépein to look up, equivalent to ana- ana- + blépein to see

Examples for Anableps

In two genera of fishes, anableps, Dialommus, the cornea is divided by a horizontal partition into two parts.

Any other fish or mammal would have been just as likely as anableps to begin the development of a bifocal eye.

Its name is anableps, but in all probability it does not wish the fact to be generally known.

Word Value for Anableps
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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