Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a double pupil: in entomology, said of an eye-like spot on the wing of a butterfly when it has within it two dots or pupils of a different color.
Wiktionary
- adj. zoology Having an eyespot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different colour, as in some butterflies.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.
Etymologies
- bi- + pupil + -ate (Wiktionary)
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