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Feature of a peacock's tail
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eyespot
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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 ...
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n. 1 (context biology English) Any of various primitive light-sensitive organs or regions in many diverse organisms. 2 An eye-like marking on the tail of a peacock or the wing of a butterfly. 3 (context botany English) Any of a group of fungal infections ...
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.