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Oculi

Oculus \Oc"u*lus\, n.; pl. Oculi. [L., an eye.]

  1. An eye.

  2. (Arch.) A round window, usually a small one.

  3. (Bot.) A leaf bud.

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oculi

n. (plural of oculus English)

WordNet
oculus
  1. n. the organ of sight [syn: eye, optic]

  2. [also: oculi (pl)]

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Usage examples of "oculi".

Itaque confessoribus effodiebantur oculi, amputabantur manus, nares vel auriculae desecabantur.

Personified by penetrating, slitted, unblinking oculi, Death loomed only inches away.

Eyes drooping and tired, the great cat frowned at the intrusion, sniffed once, and opened oculi that were two yellow moons flanking the night.

The herdsman had encountered eyes vertical and eyes horizontal, eyes round and eyes oval, but never before had he gazed back into angular oculi that were anything like those of the Chlengguu.

And they say it generates through the oculi, but most say they are wrong.

Staring relentlessly forward out of oculi that were not eyes in the normal sense, but which were misshapen and damaged and bleeding, it existed in a state of perpetual migration.

The new pattern of stalked oculi gazed unfocused at an empty vista of gnarled jungle growth.