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UK
/ˈaɪspɒt/
]
[ US /ˈaɪˌspɑt/ ]
[ US /ˈaɪˌspɑt/ ]
NOUN
- an eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color
How To Use eyespot In A Sentence
- Blue - and - white eyespots adorn the velvety black wings of a butterfly on a Polynesian island.
- Down La Canebière I stroll, heading for the glinting, faraway turquoise eyespot of the Old Port, following women dressed in ankle-length raincoats and Islamic head scarves, long-faced men in frayed djellabas and knit skullcaps, gangly youths with scruffy beards. Sunstroked
- Use the eyespot Mixer to edit and combine your videos, music and photos online!
- The colorful eyespots on butterfly wings may be patterned by a mechanism similar to that used to organize the proximo-distal axis of the insect leg.
- Where eyespot is over threshold the preferred fungicide would be cyprodinil although Punch and Landmark both have some activity against eyespot and can give useful control.
- There have been reports of Physoderma brown spot, anthracnose, and eyespot developing in Illinois cornfields.
- Butterfly eyespots have become a popular model system for the study of evolution and development.
- European butterfly having reddish - brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot.
- A relationship between eyespot phenotype and N and Dll expression is demonstrated in a loss-of-eyespot mutant in which N and Dll expression is reduced at missing eyespot sites.
- But ‘partial’ eyes turn out to be common in nature, and biologists can trace eye evolution from the lensless flatworm eyespot to the complex geometry of vertebrate eyes.