Ocellus: Definition and part of speech

Ocellus

  1. n. An eyelike spot of color, as those on the tail of the peacock.
  2. n. A little eye; a minute simple eye found in many invertebrates.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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