cat's eye
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Cat's eyes (road markings) 
Cat's eyes (marbles)
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Etymology
An allusion to the way a cat's eyes will appear to glow when illuminated in the dark. In mineralogy, a calque of French œil de chat.
Noun
cat's eye (countable and uncountable, plural cats' eyes or cat's eyes)
- (countable, British, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, usually in the plural) A retroreflective device placed on a road surface as a marking that can be seen even at night.
- (countable) A glass marble with elongated colourful inclusions running through its axis.
- Synonym: cat-eye
- A gemstone exhibiting chatoyancy.
- (mineralogy) Cymophane (translucent yellow chatoyant chrysoberyl).
- (countable, New Zealand) A sea snail, Lunella smaragda
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cat, eye.; the eye of a cat.
Translations
retroreflective device placed on a road surface
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glass marble with elongated inclusions
cymophane — see cymophane