Sentence examples for eye spot from inspiring English sources

They are sturdy fish, and powerful with a distinct eye spot on the tail.

Red-banded hairstreak!" This last was a perky metallic gray thing with an eye spot and threadlike tails that looked like antennae, a trick to make birds attack the wrong end.

C A simple eye spot found in the larva of the trematode flatworm Multicotyle purvisi, which consists of one pigment cell and one photoreceptor cell.

Tom apparently has Scott holding the knife which is connected with measured cable, just a quarter of an inch from his exposed eye spot.

Juvenile birds had less prominent grooves in their beaks and had mottled white and black necks, while the eye spot found in adults was not present; instead, a gray line ran through the eyes (which still had the white eye ring) to just below the ears.

Richard Prum's activation-inhibition models, developed from Turing's work, use six variables to account for the observed range of nine basic within-feather pigmentation patterns, from the simplest, a central pigment patch, via concentric patches, bars, chevrons, eye spot, pair of central spots, rows of paired spots and an array of dots.

It is brown with white, red, and gray markings and large, distinctive, crescent-shaped eye spots.

"Look at peacocks, they have a train that's completely ludicrous... it's brightly coloured, it's got eye spots on it," she says.

Most fossils sported "eye spots" on their wings, and microscopic techniques revealed tube-shaped mouthparts and wing scales.

If he's confident that she's interested in his advances, he opens his cape, revealing two reflective blue-green "eye spots" just above his eyes.

The dorsal and caudal fins also may bear gold-ringed eye spots or ocelli.