"retina" meaning in English

See retina in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈrɛt.ɨ.nə/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-retina.wav [UK] Forms: retina [singular], retinas or retinae [plural]
Head templates: {{noun|3=retinae}} [POS TABLE]
  1. The retina is a thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball where light is converted into signals that are sent to the brain.
    Sense id: simple-retina-en-noun-XFHO2vpm Categories (other): Anatomy
     
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "retina",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "retinas or retinae",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "3": "retinae"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Anatomy",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The retina is a thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball where light is converted into signals that are sent to the brain."
      ],
      "id": "simple-retina-en-noun-XFHO2vpm",
      "raw_tags": [
        "anatomy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈrɛt.ɨ.nə/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-retina.wav",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "retina"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "retina",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "retinas or retinae",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "3": "retinae"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Anatomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The retina is a thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball where light is converted into signals that are sent to the brain."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "anatomy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈrɛt.ɨ.nə/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-retina.wav",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "retina"
}

Download raw JSONL data for retina meaning in English (0.6kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.