Found 2 items, similar to stargazer.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: stargazer
stargazer
n 1: someone indifferent to the busy world;
“in the Odyssey Homer
tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence”
[syn:
lotus-eater]
2: a physicist who studies astronomy [syn:
astronomer,
uranologist]
3: heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened
top of the head
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Stargazer
Stargazer
\Star"gaz`er\ (-g[=a]z`[~e]r), n.
1. One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in
derision or contempt, an astronomer.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of spiny-rayed
marine fishes belonging to
Uranoscopus,
Astroscopus,
and allied genera, of the family
Uranoscopid[ae]. The
common species of the Eastern United States are
Astroscopus anoplus, and
Astroscopus guttatus. So
called from the position of the eyes, which look directly
upward.
[1913 Webster]