pupillate

English

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Etymology

From pupil +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Adjective

pupillate (not comparable)

  1. (zoology) Having a central spot of another color, like the pupil of the human eye.
    • 1870, The Zoologist, page 1988:
      […] the anterior segments being dilated and having a large pupillate spot on either side representing the eye of the snake.
    • 1971, The Moths of America North of Mexico, Including Greenland, page 129:
      […] pupillate gray rings.

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