What is "nictate"

Usage examples of "nictate".

Faced with such unknowns, Broey tended to withdraw into himself, eyes veiled by the nictating membrane while he weighed the possibilities.

In actual fact, he could hardly wait to lower his nictating membranes, but it comes to the same thing.

There was no evidence of either an eyelid or a nictating membrane to cover the eye.

Varlan slid nictating membranes over her eyes, then opened them again to signify her shock.

Now the two-legged monsters might well turn the whole effort into radioactive dust in less time than it took to slide a nictating membrane over a vision ocular.

He closed his reptilian eyes briefly, which was no closing at all, for he had only nictating membranes.

His skin was dull, and nictating membranes were half-deployed across his eyes.

She would look into the eyes covered with nictating membrane, evil eyes masked with cloudy innocence.

The nictating membranes of the third eyelid retracted so that his eyes were fully open and bright as the highest caliber peridots.

His skin was dull, and nictating membranes were half deployed across his eyes.

He swung his hands up and boxed Maror on either side of the throat, at the base of the nictating membranes that served as his vocal apparatus.

Her mouth barely moved when she spoke—instead, the sound issued predominantly from the nictating membranes that fluttered at the base of her neck.

He seemed grate-ful for the attention, and several times throughout the course of the meal he actually laughed rather boisterously, his nictating membranes flapping with furious speed.

He swung his hands up and boxed Maror on either side of the throat, at the base of the nictating membranes that served as his vocal apparatus.

Manlike in its overall appearance, its face was sharply convex and it had fluttering slits on its nictating membrane swept across the creature's eyes from the inner side to the outer.