Definitions
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- adjective Resembling an
eye .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective suggesting an eye or eyes
Etymologies
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Examples
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In moonlight stood a dwelling, but no mailbox nameplate telling just whose vacant eyelike windows and bleak walls I stood before.
Nutrition 2010
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Now he could deal with not knowing what to do with the two monstrous, confrontational eyelike yolks.
Unbearable Lightness Portia de Rossi 2010
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Here and there I saw the tiny eyelike knots of birthing solar systems.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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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.
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Photosensitive, eyelike organs have developed in the animal series independently at least 40 times
Insight Into Eye Evolution Deals Blow To Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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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.
Insight Into Eye Evolution Deals Blow To Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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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.
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In moonlight stood a dwelling, but no mailbox nameplate telling just whose vacant eyelike windows and bleak walls I stood before.
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Its eyes were gone -eyes or eyelike structures; actually, Gann knew, they were more like laser search gear.
Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963
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Two eyelike organs projecting upward, the pupils clear and watchful.
The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952
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