OCELLUS

PRONUNCIATION (o-SEL-uhs)

MEANING: noun:
1. A small simple eye common to invertebrates.
2. An eyelike colored spot on an animal (as on peacock feathers, butterfly wings, fish, etc.) or on a leaf of a plant.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ocellus (little eye), diminutive of oculus (eye). Earliest documented use: 1819
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OTELLUS - beseeching the Oracle

OCELLES - not A or B or AB celles

BOCELLUS - a singular well-known tenor