spectacled
Americanadjective
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wearing glasses
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(of an animal) having markings around the eyes resembling a pair of glasses
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Origin of spectacled
Example Sentences
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Some of the trees will be turned into chippings that can be used by the spectacled bears, which enjoy the pine scent, and the rhinos, which enjoy foraging through them.
From BBC • Jan. 4, 2025
Native reptiles and birds, including the Be’er Sheva fringe-fingered lizard, the pin-tailed sandgrouse and the spectacled warbler, are now fall easy prey for crows and jays perched in the tree branches.
From Salon • Nov. 20, 2024
Tamil Nadu has high numbers of four venomous snakes whose bites can seriously affect humans: the spectacled cobra, the Russell's viper, the saw-scaled viper and the common krait.
From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2024
Sun, moon, grizzly, black, spectacled, sloth: Bears all over the world can stand, shuffle, totter and walk on two legs, though they usually prefer four.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023
Finally a doctor came, gray-haired, white-coated, spectacled, efficient, serious, taciturn, bearing a tray upon which sat a bottle of mysterious fluid and a hypodermic needle.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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