odd-eyed

adjective

Having heterochromia of the eyes.

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Meanings

adjectiveodd-eyed (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving heterochromia of the eyes.

    Odd-eyed rats are more common in certain colors, but breeders are trying to develop them in all colors and varieties.

    2011, Debbie Ducommum, Rats: Practical, Accurate Advice from the Expert, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    I refer to the occurrence of clear-legged and odd-eyed birds (a hazel and a pearl eye), in the Birmingham Muffed Tumbler broods from parent birds both muffed in legs, and with pearl or silver eyes, and vice versa— i.e., muffed-legged and silver-eyed brood from clear-legged and odd-eyed parentage.

    1871, Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening - Volume 20, page 16

    Some Turkish Angoras are “odd-eyed.” This means one eye is gold and one is blue. In Turkey, odd-eyed cats are thought to be special cats.

    2013, Kristin Petrie, Turkish Angora Cats, →ISBN, page 11
  2. not comparableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see odd, eye.

    Giving Frank an odd-eyed glance, he says, “The other?

    2011, Frank Bill, Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories, →ISBN, page 119
    1 more example

    One eve, as at my window-panes I stood, Gray films of memory patched the dull gray view, Where thoughts, blithe-winged, meandered as they would, Like odd-eyed fairies that from childhood flew.

    1903, Lionel Josaphare, The Humpback, the Cripple, and the One-eyed Man
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