lens of the eye

Questions about lens of the eye

What is another word for lens of the eye?

It depends which lens of the eye you mean. In the sense “biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina”, the synonyms are lens, crystalline lens. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of lens of the eye?

WordNet records no antonym for lens of the eye. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for lens of the eye come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of lens of the eye

• Full entry for lens of the eyeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for lens of the eyeWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.