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UK
/ˈaɪləs/
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[ US /ˈaɪɫəs/ ]
[ US /ˈaɪɫəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
lacking eyes or eyelike features
eyeless fish that evolved in dark caves
an eyeless needle -
lacking sight
blind as an eyeless beggar
How To Use eyeless In A Sentence
- Blind, totally eyeless trilobites have given us another indication of the range of trilobite habits and habitats.
- eyeless fish that evolved in dark caves
- These rocks also stirred with novel species of eyeless shrimp, white crabs, translucent sea anemones and large, pink fish.
- Or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll.
- We would not call a dragonfly eye and a human eye homologous—they seem so different, in so many ways, and the evidence suggests that our last common ancestor was eyeless, with little more than photosensitive spots. PZ Myers - The Deepest Links (on Evolution)
- There the true gods led him to the subterranean pool where eyeless, albescent fish swam around the clutch of huge eggs, as hard as the finest armor, left there countless centuries past. Conan The Magnificent
- In The Comforter, a hirsute woman (an actual genetic condition that led to the bearded lady once popular in freak-shows and French courts), cradles an eyeless creature conceived of as an udder with a large mouth. Spread ArtCulture: Patricia Piccinini's World of Creatures Great & Small
- These rocks also stirred with novel species of eyeless shrimp, white crabs, translucent sea anemones and large, pink fish.
- Eyeless at Gaza, Samson struggled to regain the power to pull down the pillars that destroyed him and his enemies together.
- At the foot of this tree sat Tibbie Dyster; and from her red cloak the level sun-tide was thrown back in gorgeous glory; so that the eyeless woman, who only felt the warmth of the great orb, seemed, in her effulgence of luminous red, to be the light-fountain whence that torrent of rubescence burst. Alec Forbes of Howglen