Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In entomology, furnished with a central dark spot; pupilate: as, a white spot pupiled with blue: used especially of ocellated spots.

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Examples

  • Straightening with a snap, his right arm uncoiled with the precision of a cracking whip, and the dagger that he had drawn from his boot sank beyond the hilt in a slit-pupiled eye.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Bloodstone - Karl Edward Wagner Blue Tyson 2009

  • They had lidless slit-pupiled eyes, gaping nostril pits, outsize lipless jaws rimmed with yellow vomerine fangs.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Bloodstone - Karl Edward Wagner Blue Tyson 2009

  • Behind both of the glass windows within blinked a living eye, dark and handsome as Tom Riddle's eyes had been before he turned them scarlet and slit-pupiled

    Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

  • The sweaty, coke-fueled monologue delivered by t-zone oil billionaire Brandon Davis this May made headline news, as Davis labeled Lindsay Lohan “poor” and a “fire-craaaw…tch”, with a large-pupiled Paris Hilton giggling like a down-syndromed Geisha girl at his side.

    The 10 Best 10 Best Lists of 2006, #2: The Top 10 Celebrity Beefs | Best Week Ever 2006

  • Casting a slit-pupiled eye in the boy's direction, Khiindi raised a leg and proceeded to clean himself under his tail.

    First Warning McCaffrey, Anne 2005

  • Jurk Usk sat in the same surly, unmoved silence, but Crane thought that the Saturnian was under tension, that something lurked behind those pale, big-pupiled eyes.

    Hell Wings Over Manhattan Adams, Stephen 2004

  • Something over nine feet tall, the blond monster had bulging, slant-pupiled eyes that emerged from both sides of its upper body on the end of thick, muscular stalks.

    Lost And Found Foster, Alan Dean 2004

  • The eyes, though, they were was what caught you and held you'slit-pupiled and the deep crimson of the finest rubies-

    Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • They rolled on the ground, shrieking and moaning, their wide, full-pupiled eyes temporarily blinded.

    Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

  • Hibbing tried not to show too much interest, wondering in the midst of his caution if the vertical-pupiled, lizardlike alien would recognize such concern even if it was manifested.

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

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