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  • noun Plural form of eyestalk.

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Examples

  • The head contained two flexible eyestalks that were so high above the ground that the human explorers had to look up to make eye contact.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • In that event the Studio will probably recoil from science fiction like a snail with salt sprinkled on its eyestalks, and the great scientifilm potentials will be lost in the Limbo of Unmade Things.

    Will You Go See Avatar? 2009

  • But the orbs of sadness lurched backward into her face, like the diffident eyestalks of a snail., A tentative but genuine smile crept across her face, eating her countenance in a deliberate, almost ruminant manner, as if it didn't know what to do when set free.

    The Fugitive Waits Jack Ales-Oruam 2011

  • The head contained two flexible eyestalks that were so high above the ground that the human explorers had to look up to make eye contact.

    365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

  • She loves dragon mythology, cephalopods and things with eyestalks.

    CAROUSEL PRINCESS • by Polenth Blake 2009

  • In that event the Studio will probably recoil from science fiction like a snail with salt sprinkled on its eyestalks, and the great scientifilm potentials will be lost in the Limbo of Unmade Things.

    Will You Go See Avatar? 2009

  • Instead, we have new pepperpots that are somewhat taller (apparently so that the eyestalks could have an eyeline with Karen Gillan, who's nearly six feet tall), come in bright shiny colors like the movie Daleks from the sixties ... and have bustles.

    And here we are with Doctor Eleven...hrm lonemagpie 2010

  • Impassive, the eyestalks watched his death-throes as the water turned red.

    DELUGE (Part 38) – Brian Keene 2009

  • One day, her stories will grow eyestalks and slither away.

    CAROUSEL PRINCESS • by Polenth Blake 2009

  • The eyestalks turned in every direction, and ugly gray spittle flowed from its wide mouth as a series of voices emerged.

    DRAGON GAMES P.W. CATANESE 2010

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