Noun: ocellation
| Singular | ocellation |
| Plural | ocellations |
Sample Sentences
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In Pararge aegeria, increased dorsal hindwing ocellation (i.e., four spots) occurs in mid-summer (Parker, 1984; Shreeve, 1987). [1993, Roger L. H. Dennis, Butterflies and Climate Change, →ISBN, page 131:]
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This feature is the ocellation of the tail feathers of the male of the species, whose brilliant plumage earned its reputation since antiquity as the most beautiful of all birds. [1997, Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, Loyola's Acts: The Rhetoric of the Self, →ISBN, page 111:]
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All that is left of the omnidirectional ball of intense eyes is the dual colour of the ocellations and the brilliant pattern they make, a fascinating, silky fan. [2016, Michel Serres, The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like ocellation
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin ocellus (“little eye”), from oculus (“eye”) + -ation. See: Latin Nouns '
ocellus'.