2. Verb. (present participle of nictitate) ¹
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Definition of Nictitating
1. nictitate [v] - See also: nictitate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nictitating
Literary usage of Nictitating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1900)
"Tlw nictitating Membranes of Selachians. My dissections of British fish possessing
this membrane were completed at Plymouth in Easter 1898, after which date ..."
2. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"At the medial angle of the eye is the large nictitating membrane (membrana
nictitans), or "third eyelid," corresponding to the plica semilunaris of man. ..."
3. Outlines of the Comparative Physiology and Morphology of Animals by Joseph LeConte (1899)
"Eye of a bird showing (nm) the nictitating membrane. order that its image shall
fall on this fovea. We will speak of this again under binocular vision in ..."
4. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1851)
"ig mixed and agitated with nictitating MEMBRANE, in comparative anatomy ; a thin
membrane, chiefly found in the bird and fish kinds, which covers the eyes ..."
5. The Works of William Paley by William Paley, James Paxton, Edmund Paley (1825)
"It were, however, injustice to dismiss the eye as a piece of mechanism, without
noticing that most exquisite of all contrivances, the nictitating membrane, ..."
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