What is "white-eye"

White-eye \White"-eye`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Zosterops c[oe]rulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-eyed tit.

The white-eyes are small passerine birds native to tropical, subtropical and temperate Sub-Saharan Africa, southern and eastern Asia, and Australasia. White-eyes inhabit most tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, the western Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf of Guinea. Discounting some widespread members of the genus Zosterops, most species are endemic to single islands or archipelagos. The silvereye, Zosterops lateralis, naturally colonised New Zealand, where it is known as the "wax-eye" or tauhou ("stranger"), from 1855. The silvereye has also been introduced to the Society Islands in French Polynesia, while the Japanese white-eye has been introduced to Hawaii.

White-eye can refer to:

• White-eye (Zosteropidae), a large family of birds.
• White-eye (fish) (Oxyzygonectes dovii), a species of fish.
• White-eye mutation, a mutation in Drosophila melanogaster linked to the X chromosome, found by reciprocal cross breeding experiments in 1906.
• A lioness member of the Marsh Pride of lions that have featured for many years in the BBC series Big Cat Diary
• Griefer, a disruptive player of MMORPGs in Taiwan is known as "white-eyed"

The white-eye (Oxyzygonectes dovii) is a species of killifish of the family Anablepidae. This species is the only member of its genus, Oxyzygonectes, and the subfamily Oxyzygonectinae.

This fish species is found in Pacific drainages in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

O. dovii has no gonopodium like the other members of its family. The dorsal and anal fins are posteriorly placed just before the caudal peduncle and well behind the midbody. The reach a maximum length of about 15 centimetres (6 in) TL.

Many of these fish inhabit brackish waters. They are found in rivers of low elevation, up to 15 metres (50 ft) above sea level. These fish feed on detritus, algae, and sometimes on terrestrial insects.

Though it occurs in estuaries, it breeds in freshwater. This species is not a seasonal killifish. O. dovii has been bred in captivity.

Loess with lime nodules (white-eye, beloglaska) are non-stratified, geologically recent deposits of silty or loamy material, deposited by the wind and cemented together with calcium carbonate concretions.

Loess deposits with lime nodules are found in the illuvial horizons of soils that formed on loess and loess-like loams. In the soil profile, the nodules stand out as bright spots with a clear and rounded shape. The size of spots is 1–2 cm in diameter, which is comparable to the size of an eye, and, more specifically, to that of the species of birds known as White-eye. Thus, the name "White-eye" for loess with lime nodules may have been derived from their comparison to these birds. Unlike other forms of carbonate nodules, which are often found in more solid rock, loess deposits with lime nodules are soft and crumbly, or loose. The German word for loose is Loess; it was first used in about 1821 in reference to the Rhine River loess.

The word "White-eye" is sometimes used as a synonym for loess loam. This is due to the presence of calcareous nodules in the loess, which are white/whitish-grey and stand out against the light yellow colour of the loess sediments.