Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Wearing spectacles.
- adjective Having markings suggesting spectacles. Used of animals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with or wearing spectacles.
- In zoology: Marked in any way that suggests spectacles or the wearing of spectacles: as, the spectacled bear or cobra.
- Spectable or spectacular; being “a sight to behold”; spectral: as, the spectacled shrimp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with spectacles; wearing spectacles.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having the eyes surrounded by color markings, or patches of naked skin, resembling spectacles.
- adjective (Zoöl.) a South American bear (
Tremarclos ornatus ) which inhabits the high mountains of Chili and Peru. It has a light-colored ring around each eye. - adjective (Zoöl.), [Local, U.S.] the surf scoter, or surf duck.
- adjective (Zoöl.) See
Eider . - adjective (Zoöl.) the gannet.
- adjective (Zoöl.) the cobra de capello.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Wearing spectacles.
- adjective Having an appearance of wearing spectacles, especially of animals.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass
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Examples
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After all, Wolfe observes, other threatened species live in the lease area, starting with a duck called the spectacled eider.
The Edge of Extinction Shnayerson, Michael 2008
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A group of 98 baby fruits bats, known as spectacled flying foxes Pteropus conspicillatus, arrived at an animal hospital in Brisbane, Australia after they became or...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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A group of 98 baby fruits bats, known as spectacled flying foxes
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Several leading environmentalists said the flights would have caused irreparable damage to the ruins and rare wildlife, such as spectacled bears and vicunas, would have been scared away.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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Several leading environmentalists said the flights would have caused irreparable damage to the ruins and rare wildlife, such as spectacled bears and vicunas, would have been scared away.
quieter 2006
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It was very early in the morning when the corn-stealer was discovered; but being caught in the act, and his whole attention taken up with the sweet milky ears of maize, his "spectacled" eyes did not avail him.
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850
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Their faces have cream-colored or "spectacled" markings and they are the only bears of South America.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010
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Their faces have cream-colored or "spectacled" markings and they are the only bears of South America.
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Their faces have cream-colored or "spectacled" markings and they are the only bears of South America.
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Their faces have cream-colored or "spectacled" markings and they are the only bears of South America.
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