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Peacock feature
Answer for the clue "Peacock feature ", 7 letters:
eyespot
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Word definitions for eyespot in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color [syn: ocellus ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Eyespot is an important fungal disease of wheat caused by the necrotrophic fungus Tapesia yallundae (syn: Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides ; W-type [anamorph]; Oculimacula yallundae ) and Tapesia acuformis (syn: Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides ; ...
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.