two-spot
Americannoun
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a playing card or the upward face of a die that bears two pips, or a domino one half of which bears two pips.
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Informal. a two-dollar bill.
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of two-spot
An Americanism dating back to 1880–85
Example Sentences
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The child’s father, 36-year-old dentist Cameron Clifford, researched the possibility with a local aquarium store and before long Terrance the California two-spot octopus, also known as a bimac, was living in a watery enclosure at the family home southwest of Oklahoma City.
From Seattle Times
He ordered his son a California two-spot octopus to keep as a pet in a tank in his bedroom.
From New York Times
Those individuals, the researchers found, exhibited the same temperature-tracking RNA-related changes as the California two-spot octopuses they had tested in the lab.
From Scientific American
But a study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology uses the California two-spot octopus as a model to help explain the physiology of this strange behavior.
From New York Times
Octopus bimaculoides, or the California two-spot octopus, is a common lab cephalopod that scientists can get from the wild.
From New York Times
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