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Webster 1913 Edition


Uveous

U′ve-ous

,
Adj.
[See
Uvea
.]
Resembling a grape.

Webster 1828 Edition


Uveous

U'VEOUS

,
Adj.
[L. uva, a grape. Resembling a grape. The uveous coat of the eye, or uvea, is the posterior lamin of the iris; so called by the ancients, because in the animals which they dissected, it resembles an unripe grape.

Definition 2024


uveous

uveous

English

Adjective

uveous (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grape or grapes.
    • 1879, Robert Scott, Poems, page 3,
      Behind, concealed by woods of pine, / There grew on plains the uveous vine;
Synonyms
  • (of or pertaining to grapes): grapey

Etymology 2

From uvea + -ous. (Related to above via Latin uva.)

Adjective

uveous (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of the uvea; uveal.
    • 1721, Cotton Mather, The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements, 1815, page 250,
      The uveous coat and the inside of the choroides are wonderfully blackened; [] .
    • 1760, cataract, entry in Thomas Dyche, A New General Engliſh Dictionary, unnumbered page,
      [] alſo a diſtemper in the eyes cauſed by the congelation of phlegm between the uveous coat and cryſtalline humour.
Synonyms
  • (of or pertaining to the uvea): uveal