单词 | oculated |
释义 | oculatedadj. Botany and Zoology. Now rare. = ocellated adj. 1. Cf. oculate adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > dappled or spotted > having eye-like spot oculate1656 oculated1688 pupilled1803 pupillatea1834 single-eyed1839 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xv. 355/1 He beareth Sable, a smooth Oculated Ray...This Ray is called so from the spots which are on each side of it on the gristly fins, resembling Eyes. 1703 Philos. Trans. 1702–3 (Royal Soc.) 23 1414 A very beautiful beetle and an oculated Butterfly. 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 152 The oblong, oculated Porcellana... The Argus-shell. 1841 E. Forbes Hist. Brit. Starfishes 103 The tubercules are more distant from each other, and the oculated spaces not so numerous, giving the whole animal a rough and granulated appearance. 1984 Annales de Limnologie 20 193 P[roasellus] coxalis is an oculated and pigmented species, ubiquitous and common in all the surface waters of the country [sc. Lebanon]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1688 |
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