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Iris locale
Answer for the clue "Iris locale ", 4 letters:
uvea
Alternative clues for the word uvea
- Optic layer containing the iris
- Layer between the sclera and retina
- Colored layer
- Eye layer whose name derives from the Latin for "grape"
- Part of the eye containing the iris
- Area changed by a colored contact
- What makes green eyes green
- Ophthalmologic study
- What gives irises their color
- Portion of the eye
Usage examples of uvea.
Uvea and the Loyalty Islands had long been French possessions, Uea had long been recognized as a Polynesian outlier, and the resemblance of the names Uvea and Uea is eye-catching, one need go no farther than the teachings of early French missionaries for a foundation for these late traditions.
Burrows, an American anthropologist, during the thirties of the present century, accepted as authentic history a story that in prehistoric times some male Uveans set out for and settled Uea in the Loyalty Islands, about 1,000 miles to the south-west of Uvea.