Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the rudimentary sensory organs of many low animals which have been supposed to have a visual function. See
eye , and cut underBalanoglossus . - noun The rudiment of an eye in the embryo of higher animals.
- noun An ocellus.
- noun In certain unicellular algæ, as Volvox, a (usually) reddish spot thought to resemble an eye in position and appearance.
- noun An ocellated or eye-like spot, as those on the tail of a peacock.
- noun Same as
eyehole , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A simple visual organ found in many invertebrates, consisting of pigment cells covering a sensory nerve termination.
- noun An eyelike spot of color.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color
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Examples
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The orange flashes with their white eye-spot markings on the gatekeeper's wings seem to turn a key in something.
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When this is completed they are fixed for life: their legs are now converted into prehensile organs; they again obtain a well-constructed mouth; but they have no antennæ, and their two eyes are now reconverted into a minute, single, simple eye-spot.
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A bright-red eye-spot may or may not be present; when present it is placed near the junction of the two furrows.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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Body plastic; no chromatophores; Family _Astastidæ_ no eye-spot
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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Body plastic; usually with Family _Euglenidæ_ chromatophores and eye-spot
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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The endoplasm usually, but not always, contains a bright red eye-spot.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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Each eye-spot was in a yellow field, strongly circled with a sharp black line; then a quarter of an inch band of yellow; next a heliotrope circle of equal width; yellow again twice as wide; then a faint heliotrope line; and last a very narrow edging of white.
Moths of the Limberlost Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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Each had, for its size, an immense black eye-spot, with a blue pupil covering three-fourths of it, crossed by a perfect comma of white, the heads toward the front wings and the curves bending outward.
Moths of the Limberlost Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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The back wings were similar to the female's, only of stronger colour, and more distinct markings; the eye-spot and lining appeared as if they had been tinted with strong fresh paint, while the edges of the wings lying beside the abdomen had the long, silken hairs of
Moths of the Limberlost Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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The bottom of the eye-spot was dark only about one-fourth the way, the remaining three-fourths, tan colour outlined at the top with pale blue and black in fine lines.
Moths of the Limberlost Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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