Crossword clues for eyestalk
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eyestalk \Eye"stalk`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.
Wiktionary
n. (cx anatomy English) A motile stalk having an eye at the tip.
Wikipedia
In anatomy, an eyestalk (sometimes spelled as eye stalk or known as an ommatophore) is a protrusion that extends the eye away from the body, giving the eye a better field of vision. It is a common feature in nature and frequently appears in fiction.
Usage examples of "eyestalk".
But Chex simply poked at one of its eyestalks with her pole, and it retreated.
The biggest centauroid lashed out to thump the worrier between his retracted primary eyestalks.
Augie set the pan down on the floor, back arched stiffly and eyestalks scanning in ragged circles.
Her three eyestalks waved purposelessly around the central orifice at the tip of the flexible snout, like the tentacles of a sea anemone.
When it passed, the three eyestalks fixed on Jameson again, and the mouth centered among them opened like a pitcher plant.
The fan-shaped irises of its eyes had contracted to slits, despite the dimness, and the three eyestalks were limp.
Malevolent eyes, set in columns of pale eyestalks that danced and swayed with slow grace as they followed his fall, radiances growing around them.
El wasted no time watching their destruction, but turned to point at another pillar and sear its column of eyestalks from top to bottom.
Behind him, unseen, the surviving eyestalks all went limp and dark in the same instant.
The hobgoblin stopped what he was doing and rotated eyestalks and antennae toward the baron dutifully.
Floyt and clutched desperately at nearby machinery, at console legs, and even tried to get a grip on the floor, his eyestalks squeezed shut, quaking in fear.
Pollolo, eyestalks squeezed shut, could only make the pleading sounds and his own shrill keening, immobilized.
The worrier instantly retracted his dorsal eyestalks and extended his primaries.
He extended his torso to its fullest height and aimed his primary eyestalks at the just-abandoned BHHEI base.
A hunter who had been silent swiveled his primary eyestalks toward the base.