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Meanings of ocellus in English

An eye having a single lens.

An eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color.

Usage of ocellus in English
1
Sanconiathon, Manetho, Berosus, and Ocellus Lucanus, have all attempted it in vain.
The Vicar of Wakefield
2
Lucanus, Ocellus, after Pythagoras, opened a school in Italy, 653-l.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
3
The doctrine of Ocellus was the general doctrine everywhere, it naturally occurring to all to make the same distinction.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
4
'Sanchoniathon, Manetho, Berosus, and Ocellus Lucanus!' said Guy, smiling.
The Heir of Redclyffe
5
It is in conformity with the principle adopted afterwards by the Pythagoreans, and expressed by Ocellus in another form;
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...