Usually means: To blink or wink eyelids.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word palpebrate:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. palpebrate: Merriam-Webster
  2. palpebrate: Collins English Dictionary
  3. palpebrate: Vocabulary.com
  4. palpebrate: Wordnik
  5. palpebrate: Wiktionary
  6. palpebrate: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. palpebrate: Dictionary.com
  8. palpebrate: Rhymezone
  9. palpebrate: FreeDictionary.org
  10. palpebrate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. palpebrate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. palpebrate: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (palpebrate)

▸ adjective:  (rare, zoology) Having eyelids.
▸ adjective:  (medicine) Pertaining to the eyelids.
▸ verb:  (rare) To wink or blink.

Similar:
palped, epalpebrate, palpigerous, operculiferous, paliform, antiopelmous, lobiped, aliped, round-mouthed, phaneroglossal, more...

Opposite:
non-palpebrate, immobile, unblinking

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Similar:
palped, epalpebrate, palpigerous, operculiferous, paliform, antiopelmous, lobiped, aliped, round-mouthed, phaneroglossal, more...

Opposite:
non-palpebrate, immobile, unblinking



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