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Answer for the clue "An eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies) ", 7 letters:
eyespot

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Eyespot can mean: Eyespot (mimicry) , a color mark that looks somewhat like an eye Eyespot , a sensory organ of invertebrates Eyespot, a type of eye in some gastropods, a part of sensory organs of gastropods Eyespot apparatus , a photoreceptive organelle ...

Usage examples of eyespot.

The length of her middle finger, its thorax black, yellow-striped, its lower wings elongated into frilled arabesques like those of a festoon, deep yellow, charcoal black, with indigo eyespots, its upper wings a chiaroscuro of black and white stripes.

Jacen Solo, it was forced to generate a shadow shape using the infrared-sensitive eyespots of the sessile polyps in the amphistaff grove.

The length of her middle finger, its thorax black, yellow-striped, its lower wings elongated into frilled arabesques like those of a festoon, deep yellow, charcoal black, with indigo eyespots, its upper wings a chiaroscuro of black and white stripes.

The black pigment of the eyespots is preserved better than anything else.