odd-eyed
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]odd-eyed (not comparable)
- Having heterochromia of the eyes.
- 1871, Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening - Volume 20, page 16:
- I refer to the occurrence of clear-legged and odd-eyed birds (a hazel and a pearl eye), in the Birmingham Muffed Tumbler broods from parent birds both muffed in legs, and with pearl or silver eyes, and vice versa— i.e., muffed-legged and silver-eyed brood from clear-legged and odd-eyed parentage.
- 2011, Debbie Ducommum, Rats: Practical, Accurate Advice from the Expert, →ISBN:
- Odd-eyed rats are more common in certain colors, but breeders are trying to develop them in all colors and varieties.
- 2013, Kristin Petrie, Turkish Angora Cats, →ISBN, page 11:
- Some Turkish Angoras are “odd-eyed.” This means one eye is gold and one is blue. In Turkey, odd-eyed cats are thought to be special cats.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see odd, eye.
- 1903, Lionel Josaphare, The Humpback, the Cripple, and the One-eyed Man:
- One eve, as at my window-panes I stood, Gray films of memory patched the dull gray view, Where thoughts, blithe-winged, meandered as they would, Like odd-eyed fairies that from childhood flew.
- 2011, Frank Bill, Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories, →ISBN, page 119:
- Giving Frank an odd-eyed glance, he says, “The other?