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  • noun Plural of oculus.

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  • noun Plural form of oculus.

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Examples

  • Bowring again: The cavern below the pattern of oculi is revealed to be the negative form of a building.

    Burying the Villa Savoye 2007

  • Bowring again: The cavern below the pattern of oculi is revealed to be the negative form of a building.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • Squeeze your zigomatic major, squint your orbicularis oculi, and if you really want to get things flowing ... expose your teeth.

    Toan Lam: Going the Extra Smile: Project Connects World Through Grins (VIDEO) Toan Lam 2011

  • Mr. Morellet's redesign of seven antique bay windows and oculi around the Lefuel staircase in the Museé du Louvre's Richelieu wing, in particular, made subtle use of his geometrical skills to create a destabilizing elegance.

    Morellet Occupies a New Space Tobias Grey 2011

  • Squeeze your zigomatic major, squint your orbicularis oculi, and if you really want to get things flowing ... expose your teeth.

    Toan Lam: Going the Extra Smile: Project Connects World Through Grins (VIDEO) Toan Lam 2011

  • What birds have instead is a strange structure inside their eye called the pecten oculi, which looks kind of like an old steam radiator dangling into the vitreous humor, which seems to be a metabolic specialization to secrete oxygen and nutrients into the vitreous to supply by diffusion the retina.

    More creationist misconceptions about the eye - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • These trading boats were three-masted, oceangoing junks, known as “big-eyed chickens” for their red sails and the huge pairs of eyes painted on their bows, put there by the sailors who believed that these magic oculi could spot pirates lying in wait up ahead.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • Ictus oculi is the Latin expression for the time taken to blink.

    Two Allegories 2009

  • And if you were to tell us that the marked boreholes remind you of Bowring's oculi, the surface presence of untraceable “subterranean subconscious” folding back into the earth, that's because Bowring is a genius and she intended it.

    Burying the Villa Savoye 2007

  • Mr. JOHN MERCANTI (Chief Engraver, United States Mint): When they do a portrait, I want them to know exactly what the whole muscle structure in the face is, orbicularis oculi, orbicularis oris.

    Sculpting The Digital Dollar 2009

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