Usually means: Simple eye in some invertebrates.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. ocellus: Merriam-Webster
  2. ocellus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ocellus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ocellus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ocellus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ocellus, ocellus: Wordnik
  7. ocellus: Wiktionary
  8. ocellus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ocellus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ocellus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ocellus: Dictionary.com
  12. Ocellus (disambiguation), Ocellus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Ocellus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ocellus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. ocellus: Rhymezone
  16. Ocellus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ocellus: FreeDictionary.org
  18. ocellus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. ocellus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. ocellus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ocellus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ocellus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ocellus: Visionary
  4. ocellus: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ocellus: A Word A Day

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. ocellus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)
  3. DRAGONFLY TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Bryological (No longer online)
  5. Ocellus: HYPP Zoology
  6. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

(Note: See ocellar as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ocellus)

noun:  A simple eye consisting of a single lens and a small number of sensory cells.
noun:  An eyelike marking in the form of a spot or ring of colour, as on the wing of a butterfly or the tail of a peacock.

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