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odd-eyed

odd-eyed adjective: having heterochromia of the eyes.

Adjective

odd-eyed (not comparable)

  1. Having heterochromia of the eyes.
    • I refer to the occurrence of clear-legged and odd-eyed birds (a hazel and a pearl eye), in the Birmingham Muffed Tumbler broods from parent birds both muffed in legs, and with pearl or silver eyes, and vice versa— i.e., muffed-legged and silver-eyed brood from clear-legged and odd-eyed parentage.1871, Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening - Volume 20, page 16
    • Odd-eyed rats are more common in certain colors, but breeders are trying to develop them in all colors and varieties.2011, Debbie Ducommum, Rats: Practical, Accurate Advice from the Expert, →ISBN
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see odd, eye.
    • One eve, as at my window-panes I stood, Gray films of memory patched the dull gray view, Where thoughts, blithe-winged, meandered as they would, Like odd-eyed fairies that from childhood flew.1903, Lionel Josaphare, The Humpback, the Cripple, and the One-eyed Man
    • Giving Frank an odd-eyed glance, he says, “The other?2011, Frank Bill, Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories, →ISBN, page 119

Questions about odd-eyed

What does odd-eyed mean?
Odd-eyed means having heterochromia of the eyes.
What part of speech is odd-eyed?
Odd-eyed is an adjective.

Words near odd-eyed in the dictionary

  1. odd-come-short
  2. odd-come-shorts
  3. odd-cum-short
  4. odd-cum-shorts
  5. odd-even
  6. odd-eyed
  7. odd-job
  8. odd-job man
  9. odd-job men
  10. odd-jobbed
  11. odd-jobber

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