Crossword-Solution: FOVEA 5 letters, 18 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Fovea n. A slight depression or pit; a fossa.

We have 18 clues for the answer “FOVEA”

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RETINAL spot 1 answer
any small pit in the surface of a bodily organ or part 1 answer
Where vision is most acute 1 answer
Tiny pit in the retina 1 answer
Spot in the retina with highest visual acuity 1 answer
Small pit: Biol. 1 answer
Small pit or hollow. 1 answer
Small pit in the retina 1 answer
Retinal area 1 answer
Point of sharpest vision 1 answer
Part of the eye where vision is sharpest 1 answer
Best vision spot 1 answer
Part of the retina 2 answers
BONE depression 2 answers
Retina part 3 answers
Small pit 4 answers
Eye part 21 answers
Pit 48 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Clearly, then, the image of _L_ falls at first a little to the right of the fovea, and continues in indirect vision to the end of the movement.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Various 2005
But one may say: The twice-seen portion was in both cases on the fovea; this may have been the conditioning circumstance, and not the fact of being given in the early part of the movement.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Various 2005
For it is well known that in the most sensitive portion of the human retina, the _fovea centralis_, the visual purple is wanting; it is also found to be completely absent from the retinæ of many animals possessing keen sight.
Response in the Living and Non-Living Jagadis Chunder Bose 2006
The eye, whose general structure is sufficiently described in all standard physiologies, consists of a visual apparatus designed to bring the images of objects to a clear focus on the retina at the _fovea_, or area of clearest vision, near the point of entrance of the optic nerve.
The Mind and Its Education George Herbert Betts 2006
Abdomen: the apical margins of the segments smooth, impunctate, their basal margins very deeply depressed; a deep fovea at the tip of the apical segment; the head, thorax, and abdomen clothed beneath with short cinereous pubescence.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Various 2007
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 19 times in crossword archives (1963–2018).