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
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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
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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
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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
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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…tchâ€, 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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They rolled on the ground, shrieking and moaning, their wide, full-pupiled eyes temporarily blinded.
Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003
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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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