What is the difference between Pollock and Walleye?

The difference between pollock and walleye

is that "pollock" is either of two lean, white marine food fishes, of the genus Pollachius, in the cod family and "walleye" is one or a pair of sideways-looking misaligned eyes.

pollock

walleye

Noun

  • Either of two lean, white marine food fishes, of the genus Pollachius, in the cod family.

Verb

  • To fish for pollock.

Noun

  • (plural “walleyes”) One or a pair of sideways-looking misaligned eyes.
  • (plural “walleyes”) An unusually pale eye.
  • (plural “walleye” or “walleyes”) A species of gamefish, Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes.

Synonyms

  • (Sander vitreus): walleyed pike colored pike, yellow pike, pickerel, Stizostedion vitreum