spectacled
Americanadjective
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wearing glasses
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(of an animal) having markings around the eyes resembling a pair of glasses
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Origin of spectacled
Example Sentences
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Spectacled and erudite, Robb is one of the foremost scholars on Teotihuacan, the ancient Mesoamerican site containing the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2023
Spectacled bears, an emblematic but vulnerable and rarely seen Andean species, have even been spotted.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 26, 2018
The big black cat included in the scene is the ‘Yana puma’, an animal that might not be a cat after all, but a local name for the Spectacled bear Tremarctos ornatus.
From Scientific American • Mar. 10, 2014
Spectacled, meticulous, kindly, Publisher Atkinson is called "ruthless" by his competitors, "determined" by his friends.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spectacled and serious, 'Sails' was spelling out the advertisements on a back page of an old Home Notes; the two Dutchmen were following his words with attentive interest.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.
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