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pinguecule

pinguecule is the alternative form of pinguecula.

Meaning of pinguecula

Noun

pinguecula (plural pingueculas or pingueculae)

  1. A yellow-white deposit on the conjunctiva of the eye, adjacent to the limbus, caused by exposure to ultraviolet.

Forms of pinguecule

pluralpinguecules

Questions about pinguecule

What is pinguecule the alternative form of?
Pinguecule is the alternative form of pinguecula.

Words near pinguecule in the dictionary

  1. Pingtingshan
  2. Pingtung
  3. pinguecula
  4. pingueculae
  5. pingueculas
  6. pinguecule
  7. pinguecules
  8. pinguefaction
  9. pinguefied
  10. pinguefies
  11. pinguefy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pinguecule (page history and authors); pinguecula (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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