English Explanatory Dictionary

eyestone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, especially an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinidae, used to remove a foreign substance from the eye.
  2. Eye agate.

Word forms

eyestone eyestones

Etymology

From eye + stone.

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