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Peacock tail feature
Answer for the clue "Peacock tail feature ", 7 letters:
eyespot
Alternative clues for the word eyespot
- Usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color
- Feature on a peacock's tail
- As soon as fully naked Trump comes in, a predator is what you'll get
- Plant disease especially found in small island
- Mark on a peacock's tail
- Peacock tail marking
- Feature of peacock, especially in small island
- An eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies)
- Peacock-tail feature
Word definitions for eyespot in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
An eyespot (sometimes ocellus ) is an eye -like marking. They are found in butterflies, reptiles, cats, birds and fish. Eyespots may be a form of mimicry in which a spot on the body of an animal resembles an eye of a different animal to deceive potential ...
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.