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Part of the eye containing the iris
Answer for the clue "Part of the eye containing the iris ", 4 letters:
uvea
Alternative clues for the word uvea
- Eye layer whose name derives from the Latin for "grape"
- Pupil's place
- Choroid coat location
- Iris's location
- Colored part of the eye
- Iris's place in the eye
- Eye part named for a grape, because they're both so tasty in a fruit salad :)
- What gives irises their color
- Holder of a 101-Across
- Iris location
Usage examples of uvea.
Uvea and the Loyalty Islands had long been French possessions, Uea had long been recognized as a Polynesian outlier, and the resemblance of the names Uvea and Uea is eye-catching, one need go no farther than the teachings of early French missionaries for a foundation for these late traditions.
Burrows, an American anthropologist, during the thirties of the present century, accepted as authentic history a story that in prehistoric times some male Uveans set out for and settled Uea in the Loyalty Islands, about 1,000 miles to the south-west of Uvea.