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OCELLUS
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Irregular inflected form: ocelli
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color
Synonyms:
eyespot; ocellus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("ocellus" is a kind of...):
marking (a pattern of marks)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An eye having a single lens
Synonyms:
ocellus; simple eye; stemma
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ocellus" is a kind of...):
eye; oculus; optic (the organ of sight)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ocellus"):
ommatidium (any of the numerous small cone-shaped eyes that make up the compound eyes of some arthropods)
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