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Mark on a peacock's tail
Answer for the clue "Mark on a peacock's tail ", 7 letters:
eyespot
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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 ; ...
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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.