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Definition of Eyespots
1. eyespot [n] - See also: eyespot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyespots
Literary usage of Eyespots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Read & Understand Science Grades 4-6 by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Ana Shirazi, Delana Heidrich, Judith Herbst, Kathleen Simpson (2005)
"They knew light and dark, and they could sense warmth and cold, thanks to something
called eyespots, small clumps of cells that are sensitive to light. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The differentiation of the male and female gametangia was made possible by the
appearance de novo of diffuse eyespots in the chloroplast of the female ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1872)
"The eyespots in the caterpillars of some ... and I believe that the various kinds
of eyespots in the wings of the imago are also epidermal colors. ..."
4. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals: A by Gilbert Charles Bourne, Arthur Bolles Lee (1902)
"In the velum a pair of eyespots has been formed right and left of the apical tuft
of cilia, and in connection with the eyespots is a pair of ..."
5. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1922)
"Many caterpillars are furnished with eyespots and other marks to make them appear
monstrous and dangerous to birds. Probably the eyespots on ..."
6. Materials for the study of variation treated with especial regard to by William Bateson (1894)
"1 The evidence concerning eyespots of Lepidoptera is taken here because eyespots
when repeated in series, though borne on appendicular parts, ..."
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