Ablepharus
noun
Ableph·a·rus
āˈblefərəs
: a genus of Old World scincoid lizards with the lower eyelid reduced to a transparent cover fused to the upper lid
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, irregular from a- entry 2 + Greek blepharon "eyelid"
First Known Use
1830, in the meaning defined above
- shear steel
- shear strength
- shear stress
- shear structure
- shear wave
- shear zone
- shearbill
- sheard
- sheared
- sheared off
- shearer
- shearers
- sheargrass
- shearhog
- shearier
- sheariest
- shearing
- shearing deformation
- shearing die
- shearing machine
- shearing off
- shearing plane
- shearing punch
- shearing strain
- shearing stress