Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Marked with spots like eyes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Marked with spots like eyes.
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Examples
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The peacock is best known for its extravagant eye-spotted tail, which it displays prominently as part of courtship of peahens.
Myrdith Leon Mccormack: Dress Me Up with Something Fierce Myrdith Leon Mccormack 2012
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The peacock is best known for its extravagant eye-spotted tail, which it displays prominently as part of courtship of peahens.
Myrdith Leon Mccormack: Dress Me Up with Something Fierce Myrdith Leon Mccormack 2012
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Then presently a passing luna moth flashed open its great eye-spotted wings directly in front of Inman's nose, and he had mistaken it for some bizarre green dreamface thrust suddenly at him out of the dark with a message to speak.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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Then presently a passing luna moth flashed open its great eye-spotted wings directly in front of Inman's nose, and he had mistaken it for some bizarre green dreamface thrust suddenly at him out of the dark with a message to speak.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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Among butterflies we have the genera Mynes, Hypocista, and Elodina, and the curious eye-spotted
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Its seat was covered with a leopard skin more eye-spotted than the body of Argus, and its foot-support was richly adorned with openwork carving.
King Candaules Th��ophile Gautier 1841
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