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单词 nictitate
释义
nictitate
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v

WORD FAMILY
nictitate: nictitating, nictitation
USAGE EXAMPLES
He heard the eyases chittering, saw Frightful sitting erect on her stub, and let his nictitating membranes slip across each eye.
Jean Craighead George, Frightful's Mountain(2001)
A nictitating membrane lowered itself over her eyes.
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex: A Novel(2002)
The eye is provided with a nictitating membrane or third eyelid, at the base of which open the ducts of the Harderian gland.
Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2012)
v briefly shut the eyes
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
blink, nictate, wink
palpebrate
wink or blink, especially repeatedly
bat, flutter
wink briefly
act involuntarily, act reflexively
act in an uncontrolled manner
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