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nounbefore 12th century{ds||1|a|}
- a specialized light-sensitive sensory structure of animals that in nearly all vertebrates, most arthropods, and some mollusks is the image-forming organ of sight; especially : the nearly spherical usually paired hollow organ of sight in vertebrates that is filled with a jellylike material, is lined with a photosensitive retina, and is lodged in a bony orbit in the skull
- all the visible structures within and surrounding the orbit and including eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrows
- the faculty of seeing with eyes
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