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catseye

catseye is the alternative spelling of cat's eye.

Meaning of cat's eye

Noun

cat's eye (countable and uncountable, plural cats' eyes or cat's eyes)

  1. (Commonwealth, countable, especially, plural-normally) A retroreflective device placed on a road surface as a marking that can be seen even at night.
  2. (countable) A glass marble with elongated colourful inclusions running through its axis.
    Synonyms:
    cat-eye
  3. A gemstone exhibiting chatoyancy.
  4. Cymophane (translucent yellow chatoyant chrysoberyl).
  5. (New Zealand, countable) A sea snail, Lunella smaragda
  6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cat, eye.; the eye of a cat.

Forms of catseye

pluralcatseyes

Questions about catseye

What is catseye the alternative spelling of?
Catseye is the alternative spelling of cat's eye.

Words near catseye in the dictionary

  1. catsat
  2. catscratch
  3. catscratches
  4. catself
  5. catselves
  6. catseye
  7. catseyes
  8. catsfoot
  9. catshank
  10. catshanks
  11. catshark

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catseye (page history and authors); cat's eye (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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