eyelike markings on a butterfly's wings. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Two eyelike organs projecting upward, the pupils clear and watchful. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
Here and there I saw the tiny eyelike knots of birthing solar systems. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Photosensitive, eyelike organs have developed in the animal series independently at least 40 times. From Wordnik.com. [Insight Into Eye Evolution Deals Blow To Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Now he could deal with not knowing what to do with the two monstrous, confrontational eyelike yolks. From Wordnik.com. [Unbearable Lightness] Reference
In moonlight stood a dwelling, but no mailbox nameplate telling just whose vacant eyelike windows and bleak walls I stood before. From Wordnik.com. [Nutrition] Reference
He waited for their flashlights before leading them through the warehouse back to the front where a homeless woman sat in the corner near a vacant, eyelike window. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Photosensitive, eyelike organs have developed in the animal series independently at least 40 times, and all the steps from a light-sensitive to the elaborate eyes of vertebrates, cephalopods, and insects are still found in the living species of various taxa Fig. From Wordnik.com. [Insight Into Eye Evolution Deals Blow To Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Perhaps it was so called because it opens in morning and closes at night, or because of its eyelike shape. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2] Reference
His fleshy breve was altered into an eyelike sorb; his magn had swelled and developed into a third arm, springing from the breast. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to Arcturus] Reference
Shefford saw a steep, rough slope leading up to a bulge of the cliff, and finally he made out strange little houses with dark, eyelike windows. From Wordnik.com. [The Rainbow Trail] Reference
The large caterpillars of some of the Elephant Hawkmoths are very conspicuous, and rendered all the more so by the presence of a pair of large eyelike spots. From Wordnik.com. [The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In] Reference
Untitled (Oculus), 2009, is a large eyelike protrusion that partially covers a grille in a partition wall, allowing a fragmented glimpse of what lies beyond. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
He gazed shudderingly at the unwelcoming habitation, at the dark eyelike windows, at the sweep of barren slope merging into the vast red valley, at the bold, bleak bluffs. From Wordnik.com. [The Rainbow Trail] Reference
They cast jagged beams or big, eyelike circles on the green, peeling walls and warm wood floor, serving as a counterpoint to the night sky, rimmed by the large, graceful windows along the balcony. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
A river, amber tinted in the shadow of its banks, purled at the army's feet; and at night, when the stream had become of a sorrowful blackness, one could see across it the red, eyelike gleam of hostile campfires set in the low brows of distant hills. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Badge of Courage] Reference
A river, amber-tinted in the shadow of its banks, purled at the army's feet; and at night, when the stream had become of a sorrowful blackness, one could see across it the red, eyelike gleam of hostile camp-fires set in the low brows of distant hills. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Badge of Courage] Reference
The creatures were of a livid hue, and had the form of a globe, as large as the bell itself, with a valvular opening on one side which was evidently a mouth, surrounded with a circle of eyelike disks, projecting shafts of self-evolved light into the water. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Deluge] Reference
From myriad eyelike sockets With the speed raiment of lightening She could derail a train Or misdirect an air craft in mini seconds And distort the sensory appliances of pilots And spirits to act in chosen paths Towards unfathomable destruction and beyond Words indeed cannot list the millions Of fearful applications within this monster Made to breathe life by concocting The spirits of one hundred life forms Including aliens into its engines. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Such a spot is of a selective advantage from the very beginning, and any additional modification of the phenotype that enhances the functioning of this light sensitive spot will be favored by selection. … Photosensitive, eyelike organs have developed in the animal series independently at least 40 times, and all the steps from a light-sensitive to the elaborate eyes of vertebrates, cephalopods, and insects are still found in the living species of various taxa Fig. From Wordnik.com. [A critique of Himmelfarb's scientific views - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
A bit, and then started experimenting with the eyelike membranes. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to Arcturus] Reference
A sorrowful blackness, one could see across it the red, eyelike gleam of hostile camp-fires set in the low brows of distant hills. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Badge of Courage] Reference
A river, amber tinted in the shadow of its banks, purled at the army’s feet; and at night, when the stream had become of a sorrowful blackness, one could see across it the red, eyelike gleam of hostile campfires set in the low brows of distant hills. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Badge of Courage]
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