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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, of or pertaining to the tapetum.

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  • "Ophthalmic examination reveals varying degrees of a mosaic pattern with dark brown to yellow brown pigment deposited in the tapetal zone (the tapetum being the iridescent membrane of the choroid of the eye), coupled with a horizontal band of pigment at the junction of the tapetum and nontapetum," Mayhew said.

    TheHorse.com News 2009

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