Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In zoology, same as ocellated .
  • In botany, resembling an eye: said of a round spot of some color which has another spot of a different color within it. See cut in next column.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Same as ocellated.

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  • adjective ocellated

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Examples

  • Bipupillate: an ocellate spot with two pupils, of the same or different in color.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Iris: the circle which, in an ocellate spot surrounds the pupil.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Blind: without eyes: applied also to an ocellate spot without a pupil.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Dioptrate: an ocellate spot with the pupil divided by a transverse line.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Epupillate: an ocellate spot included by a colored ring, but destitute of

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • The remarkable genus Drusilla, a group of pale-coloured butterflies, more or less adorned with ocellate spots, is also the object of mimicry by three distinct genera (Melanitis, Hyantis, and Papilio).

    Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • Setaceous’ is simply one of those specialist words used in the trade to mean bristly’, just as lunate’ means crescent-shaped and ocellate’ means eye-like.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Setaceous’ is simply one of those specialist words used in the trade to mean bristly’, just as lunate’ means crescent-shaped and ocellate’ means eye-like.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • -- "Of a mouse gray colour, more or less deep and sometimes tinged with tawny, with large dark spots, more or less numerous, oblong on the back and neck and in lines, more or less rounded elsewhere, and broken or coalescing" (but never ocellate:

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

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