Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated before the eye: specifically applied in herpetology to certain plates of the head.
- noun A preocular plate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Placed just in front of the eyes, as the antennæ of certain insects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Just in front of the
eyes . - noun One of the
scales just in front of the eye of areptile orfish .
Etymologies
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pre- + ocular
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Examples
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Adult males have small facial warts (infraocular and preocular) and a bushy tuft of hair on the cheek.
11 The Bearded Pig 1983
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