Usually means: Reflective layer behind animal retina.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (tapetum lucidum)

noun:  A layer of tissue in the eye of many vertebrate animals, immediately behind or sometimes within the retina, that reflects visible light so as to increase the light available to the photoreceptors.

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