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ˈeyespot
[f. eye n.1 + spot n.]
1. a. A spot resembling an eye. b. A rudimentary eye. c. In a coco-nut: = eye 12 b.
a.1879Lubbock Sci. Lect. ii. 57 In Chœrocampa tersa, there is an eye-spot on each segment. 1882Gard. Chron. XVII. 10 Calanthe Sandhurstiana..with an eye-spot at the base of the lip. 1890J. P. Ballard Among the Moths 32 His..wings..showing two large and elegant eye-spots.
b.1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. iv. 188 One or more eyespots are sometimes seated on the ganglion. 1880Bastian Brain viii. 116 In the young Lamprey two pigment spots replace the single ‘eye spot’ of the Lancelot.
c.1885H. O. Forbes Nat. Wanderings i. ii. 27 The three eye-spots seen at the end of a cocoa-nut.
2. A kind of lily of a violet or black colour, having a red spot in the middle of each leaf.
1801Southey Thalaba vi. xx, Here amid her sable cup Shines the red eye-spot..The solitary twinkler of the night.
3. A name given to two fungal diseases:
a. A disease caused by Helminthosporium sacchari that affects sugar-cane.
b. A disease caused by Cercosporella herpotrichoides that affects wheat, other cereals, and some grasses.
1906Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Bot. Ser. I. iii. 43 Several other leaf spotting fungi..are known to occur on the sugar-cane... The following are the chief known:—(1.) The ‘Eye-spot’ of Java canes, produced by Cercospora Sacchari. 1929Rev. Appl. Mycol. VIII. 467 The control of eye spot disease of sugar-cane. 1930Ibid. IX. 639 On Bon Fermier wheat affected by foot rot the author noted eye spot lesions of the type usually attributed to Leptosphaeria herpotrichoides but associated with an undetermined fungus whose cultural characteristics were quite different. 1942Ann. Appl. Biol. XXIX. 259 Wheat and barley are susceptible to eyespot but oats show considerable resistance. 1968Times 16 Dec. 7/2 The soil-borne diseases, take-all and eyespot. 1970Liebscher & Koehler tr. Frōlich & Rodewald's Pests & Dis. Tropical Crops 235 Sugar yield losses due to eye spot disease can be very high.
Hence ˈeyespotted ppl. a., having spots resembling eyes.
1590Spenser Muiopotmos 95 Iunoes Bird in her ey⁓spotted traine. 1883Times 11 June 4/5 A splendid peacock with a luxuriant train of eye-spotted feathers. |