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Meanings of eyespot in English
Spanish
ocelos 
An eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color.
Synonyms
Examples for "ocellus"
Examples for "ocellus"
1
Sanconiathon, Manetho, Berosus, and Ocellus Lucanus, have all attempted it in vain.
2
Lucanus, Ocellus, after Pythagoras, opened a school in Italy, 653-l.
3
The doctrine of Ocellus was the general doctrine everywhere, it naturally occurring to all to make the same distinction.
4
'Sanchoniathon, Manetho, Berosus, and Ocellus Lucanus!' said Guy, smiling.
5
It is in conformity with the principle adopted afterwards by the Pythagoreans, and expressed by Ocellus in another form;
Usage of eyespot in English
1
However, the role of chloroplasts in eyespot formation is not understood.
2
The 'piece de resistance' of the back wing, is the eyespot.
3
Like human eyes, though, that eyespot makes use of light-sensitive proteins.
4
These results suggest that light-shielding property of the eyespot is essential for determination of phototactic sign.
5
Suction pipette recordings have revealed that flash stimulation causes calcium currents into the eyespot and the flagella.
6
Our recent study revealed that carotenoids in the eyespot apparatus are required for triggering phototaxis in this alga.
7
The developmental and genetic bases for the formation, plasticity and diversity of eyespot patterns in butterflies are examined.
8
Our two organisms had only a single chloroplast and no zoospore eyespot, but their gene sequences differed substantially.
9
A whole eyespot may come, or it may go... leaving the field of the cell plain and without a speck.
10
Using a newly constructed confocal microscope we have studied how absorption and reflection of eyespot and cell body shape this directivity.
11
Thus most of the attenuation of light reaching the eyespot from the rear is due to chlorophyll and other pigments within the cell.
12
In agreement with previous results the eyespot was found to be highly reflectant, owing to its interference reflector design, but only for yellow light.
13
It isn't very big, and some of the eyespots are wonky.
14
In some species, the eyespots are covered by skin.
15
In butterflies, eyespots have evolved as new pattern elements that develop from special organizers called foci.
16
The creature had eyespots on each side of its head-itwould not be easy to surprise.
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