iriscope
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A philosophical toy for exhibiting the prismatic tints by means of thin films.
Example Sentences
- "My overseas savings came in handy because I could buy an iridology hand lens, which I needed for consultations as I could not afford an iriscope costing R40,000 at the time."
- "It's funny, because people sort of—if they know you're an iridologist they say 'What do you see in my eyes?' And of course I'm never drawn into that, because eye-to-eye —just on a one-to-one—you can't really see very much, whereas under the iriscope..."
- "Unlike the other types, even with an iriscope, it's very difficult to ascertain the fibre structure as the iris is deeply suffused with pigment."