SPECTACLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spectacled mean? 

• SPECTACLED (adjective)
  The adjective SPECTACLED has 1 sense:

1. wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass

  Familiarity information: SPECTACLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPECTACLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass

Synonyms:

bespectacled; monocled; spectacled

Context example:

the monocled gentleman

Similar:

adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)

 Context examples 

The vicar, being a bachelor, was glad to come to such an arrangement, though he had little in common with his lodger, who was a thin, dark, spectacled man, with a stoop which gave the impression of actual, physical deformity.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Kartik Sunagar, an author of the study and assistant professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, tells that the venom of spectacled cobra found in West Bengal is strongly neurotoxic while that of the same species in Arunachal Pradesh state is extremely cytotoxic.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)

However, in the study, Senji Laxme from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and colleagues show that the antivenom used in India works only against the ‘big four’ — the common krait (Bungarus caeruleus), spectacled cobra (Naja naja), saw-scaled viper (Echis carinatus) and Russell’s viper (Daboia russelii) — but not against several other medically important species.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)