Translation for "nictitation" to spanish
Nictitation
noun
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noun
Colt, a local lawyer, and his wife, whose blundering Cadillac half entered my driveway before retreating in a flurry of luminous nictitation.
Colt, un abogado del lugar, y su esposa, cuyo atolondrado Cadillac entró hasta la mitad de mi sendero antes de retirarse en un despliegue de luminosos parpadeos.
A nictitating membrane flickered up over the left eye, the circular lip of muscle around the mouth flexed in and out like an iris, and Ringil, staring up with a crick in his neck, saw concentric rings of teeth lift themselves briefly erect and then lie down in the throat again.
Una membrana nictitante parpadeó sobre el ojo izquierdo, el circular labio de músculo que rodeaba la boca se ensanchó y se contrajo como un iris, y Ringil, mirando fijamente con tortícolis, vio cómo unos anillos concéntricos de dientes se erigían brevemente y volvían a replegarse contra la garganta.
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