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OCELLUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

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:

Nouns denoting body parts

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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