Ocular Definition

ŏkyə-lər
adjective
Of, for, or like the eye.
Webster's New World
Resembling the eye in form or function.
Ocular spots; an ocular organ.
American Heritage Medicine
By eyesight.
An ocular demonstration.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to the sense of sight.
An ocular aberration.
American Heritage Medicine
Seen by the eye; visual.
Ocular proof.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
noun
The lens or lenses constituting the eyepiece of an optical instrument.
Webster's New World

Any of the scales forming the margin of a reptile's eye.

Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Ocular

Noun

Singular:
ocular
Plural:
oculars

Origin of Ocular

  • Late Latin oculāris from Latin oculus eye okw- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin oculāris (“of the eye"), from oculus (“eye").

    From Wiktionary

Ocular Sentence Examples

  • We shall, therefore, ignoring the ocular somite, speak of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth legbearing somites of the prosoma, and indicate the appendages by the Roman numerals, I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and whilst ignoring the praegenital somite we shall speak of the first, second, third, &c., somite of the mesosoma or opisthosoma (united mesosoma and metasoma) and indicate them by the Arabic numerals.

  • Occasionally the ocular lobes are articulated.

  • Usually the sides of the carapace are strangely produced into a mock rostrum in front of the ocular lobe, be it oculiferous or not.

  • Spiritualists have, as a rule, sought to convince not by testimony but by ocular demonstration.

  • One of these is the ocular segment, in front of the antennal, and behind the primitive preoral segment.

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Words Starting With

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