What is "nictating"

Usage examples of "nictating".

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.

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