Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having eyes; provided with eyes.
- Having spots resembling eyes; specifically, in botany, ocellate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with eyes.
- adjective Having spots or holes resembling eyes; ocellated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
eyes . - adjective Having spots or holes resembling eyes;
ocellated .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Though far from showy, they appeal to the educated eye for appreciation of their blue and purple oculate flowers.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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Carlos Finlay, trying to prove that mosquitoes carried yellow fever, had made about a hundred experimental efforts to in - oculate human beings.
Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ] 1943
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He would be kind to me, he said, and would een-oculate me; yes, that is his word -- een-oculate me, so that no poison could ever harm me.
Poison Island Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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fbharjo commented on the word oculate
see ya
May 12, 2008
duckbill commented on the word oculate
"oculate paradise"
March 7, 2011
biocon commented on the word oculate
Oculate is also a verb meaning to set eyes upon; to see, behold (OED).
March 4, 2012
michaelt42 commented on the word oculate
Those who have eyes but do not see are, perhaps, inoculate? Although, after writing this comment, I can see confusion with another meaning of inoculate, all because of the various different meanings of that innocent yet intoxicating prefix, in-. Delightfully, the Italian for coronation is incoronazione.
March 4, 2012
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March 5, 2012