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OCELLUS (ocelli)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ocellus mean?
• OCELLUS (noun)
The noun OCELLUS has 2 senses:
1. an eye having a single lens
2. an eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color
Familiarity information: OCELLUS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An eye having a single lens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
ocellus; simple eye; stemma
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
eyespot; ocellus
Hypernyms ("ocellus" is a kind of...):
marking (a pattern of marks)
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