a. (sb.) Anat. and Zool. [f. SUPRA- 1 b, after superciliary.] = SUPERCILIARY; as sb. applied spec. to the small scales attached to the eyelids in reptiles, below the supra-oculars.
1828–32. in Webster (citing Ure).
1863. Huxley, Man’s Place Nat., II. 76. In the Man,… the supraciliary ridges or brow-prominences usually project but little.
1874. Coues, Birds N. W., 450. A yellowish suffusion about the head, and especially along the supraciliary stripe.
1903. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., II. 125. Five supraoculars,… 10 or 11 supraciliaries.
