Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“This suggests that they really are paying attention to the direction of the pupils in the eyespots and are perceiving them as eyelike stimuli,” Rowland says.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 4, 2023
In an effort to mimic early eye development, researchers have created tiny orbs of human brain tissue with rudimentary pairs of light-sensitive, eyelike structures in a lab dish.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 25, 2021
In species belonging to many different groups, he saw caterpillars or chrysalises that bore all sorts of paired eyelike markings of various color schemes, with round or slit pupils.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2010
Head covered with feathers; feathers of the rump elongated, with eyelike spots: 3 species.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
The large caterpillars of some of the Elephant Hawkmoths are very conspicuous, and rendered all the more so by the presence of a pair of large eyelike spots.
From The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Sir John Lubbock
