单词 | pupillate |
释义 | pupillateadj. Entomology (now rare). = pupilled adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > dappled or spotted > having eye-like spot oculate1656 oculated1688 pupilled1803 pupillatea1834 single-eyed1839 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 287 An ocellus is called bipupillate, tripupillate, etc., when there are two, three, etc. of these spots.] a1834 T. Say Amer. Entomol. (1870–9) II. 243 Wings hyaline, with a double series of large, pupilate ocellæ, those near the tip confused. 1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Pūpillātus, applied to the wings of birds and of butterflies when they present circular spots of divers colours, representing..an eye, and in the centre of which exists a black spot resembling a pupil: pupillate. 1997 P. J. DeVries Butterflies of Costa Rica II. 132/2 Male—upperside dark brown with a distinct black, pupillate eye-spot ringed in yellow in the FW cell. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † pupillatev. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. intransitive. To cry like a peacock. ΚΠ 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Pupillate, to cry like a Peacocke. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.a1834v.1623 |
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