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ocellated
[ os-uh-ley-tid, oh-sel-ey-tid ]
adjective
- (of a spot or marking) eyelike.
- having ocelli, or eyelike spots.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ocellated1
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Example Sentences
No distinct tufts of scales or knobs appear, and the ocellated region is traversed by four or five dark longitudinal lines.
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Species with ring-spots sometimes have nuclei, and ocellated larv in some cases possess only a pale spot instead of a dark pupil.
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Lucasii, Walk., offers another instance of the retention of the subdorsal line by an ocellated species.
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In Lycæna agestis both sexes have wings of a brown colour, bordered with small ocellated orange spots, and are consequently alike.
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This bamboo shows as its middle figure an Argus pheasant with its two long ocellated tail-feathers.
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