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sclera

Syllables: scle·ra/ˈsklɛəɹə/US/ˈsklɛrə/

sclera noun: the white of the eye; the tough outer coat of the eye that covers the eyeball except for the cornea.

sclera: the white of the eye; the tough outer coat of the eye that covers the eyeball except for the cornea
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Noun

sclera (plural scleras or sclerae or scleræ)

  1. The white of the eye; the tough outer coat of the eye that covers the eyeball except for the cornea.
    • She'd been back a week and it was clear that college-level track was kicking her ass, the sclera in her normally wide manga-eyes were shot through with blood vessels.2007, Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    • Such pressures explain why humans are peculiar in having our rather small irises set against a white background—the sclera—in our eyes. Anyone watching us can infer where we are looking or whom we are looking at.2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 13, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN

sclera meaning in Tamil, Telugu and Arabic

sclera in Tamil

வெளி விழி உறை, விழிவெண்படலம், வெண்விழி, வெண்கண்

sclera in Telugu

the sclera, white of the eye
తెలుపు telupu

sclera in Arabic

white of the eye
مُقْلَة muqla, بَيَاض اَلْعَيْن bayāḍ al-ʕayn

Synonyms of sclera

Forms of sclera

pluralscleras
pluralsclerae
pluralscleræ

Origin of sclera

Borrowed from New Latin sclera, from Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”).

Words formed from sclera

Words that rhyme with sclera

Questions about sclera

What does sclera mean?
Sclera means the white of the eye; the tough outer coat of the eye that covers the eyeball except for the cornea.
What is sclera in Tamil?
Sclera in Tamil is வெளி விழி உறை, விழிவெண்படலம், வெண்விழி. See Sclera meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sclera?
Sclera is a noun.
How do you pronounce sclera?
Sclera is pronounced /ˈsklɛəɹə/.
What is the plural of sclera?
The plural of sclera is scleras.

Words near sclera in the dictionary

  1. Sclavonick
  2. Sclavs
  3. SCLC
  4. SCLCs
  5. Scleddau
  6. sclera
  7. scleracorneal
  8. scleractian
  9. scleractians
  10. scleractinan
  11. scleractinans

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sclera (page history and authors); sclera (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); తెలుపు (Telugu) (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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