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scotoscopes

scotoscopes is the plural of scotoscope.

Meaning of scotoscope

Noun

scotoscope (plural scotoscopes)

  1. Any instrument for viewing objects in the dark or in a faint light.
    • August 13th 1664, Samuel Pepys, Diary (London: Marshall Cavendish, 1988), 133.
      “Comes Mr. Reeve, with a microscope and scotoscope. […] The other [the scotoscope] he gives me, and is of value; and a curious curiosity it is to discover objects in a dark room with.”

Questions about scotoscopes

What is scotoscopes the plural of?
Scotoscopes is the plural of scotoscope.

Words near scotoscopes in the dictionary

  1. scotophors
  2. scotopia
  3. scotopic
  4. scotopsin
  5. scotoscope
  6. scotoscopes
  7. scotosis
  8. scototactic
  9. scototaxes
  10. scototaxis
  11. scototherapy

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