senocular

English

Etymology

From Latin sēnī (“six each”), from sex (“six”) + oculus (“eye”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /siːˈnɒkjʊlə(ɹ)/

Adjective

senocular (not comparable)

  1. Having six eyes.
    • 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
      spiders […] , for the most part octonocular, and ſome […] senocular

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “senocular”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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