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sclerae

sclerae is the plural of sclera.

Meaning of sclera

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

Questions about sclerae

What is sclerae the plural of?
Sclerae is the plural of sclera.

Words near sclerae in the dictionary

  1. scleractiniamorphs
  2. scleractinian
  3. scleractinians
  4. scleractinid
  5. scleractinids
  6. sclerae
  7. scleragogy
  8. scleral
  9. scleral buckle
  10. scleral buckles
  11. scleralization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sclerae (page history and authors); sclera (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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