单词 | ophthalmite |
释义 | ophthalmite|ɒfˈθælmaɪt| [f. Gr. ὀϕθαλµός eye + -ite1 2 b and 3.] †1. Min. (See quot.) Obs.
1811Pinkerton Petral. II. 63 Miagite..has by some been called Corsican granite, or Corsican granitel; and by others, from some resemblance to the eye, ocular granite, or, as it more properly may be expressed from the Greek, ophthalmite... It consists of concentric but irregular circles of white felspar and black siderite. 2. Zool. The stalk on which the eye is borne in podophthalmous Crustacea; the ophthalmic peduncle, eye-stalk.
1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vi. 305 The moveable stalks, which support the eyes,..‘the ophthalmic peduncles’ or ‘ophthalmites’. 1887Athenæum 4 June 741/2 The assumption of antenniform characters by the left ophthalmite. |

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