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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Latin oculatus, from oculus eye.

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  • see ya

    May 12, 2008

  • "oculate paradise"

    March 7, 2011

  • Oculate is also a verb meaning to set eyes upon; to see, behold (OED).

    March 4, 2012

  • 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