

Oct 25, 2018 This week’s theme

Words related to the eye



This week’s words

prosopopeia

ullage

trompe l'oeil

ocellus

red-eye



Photo: Susan Ford Collins Words related to the eye A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



ocellus PRONUNCIATION: (o-SEL-uhs)

MEANING: noun:

1. A small simple eye common to invertebrates.

2. An eyelike colored spot on an animal (as on peacock feathers, butterfly wings, fish, etc.) or on a leaf of a plant.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ocellus (little eye), diminutive of oculus (eye). Earliest documented use: 1819.

USAGE:

G.W. Hawkes; Semaphore; MacMurray & Beck; 1998.



See more usage examples of “Each octagonal ocellus in the turtle’s shell grew like a tiny flower.”G.W. Hawkes;; MacMurray & Beck; 1998.See more usage examples of ocellus in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. -Thomas Babington Macaulay, author and statesman (25 Oct 1800-1859)





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