U'VEOUS, adjective [Latin uva, a grape. Resembling a grape. The uveous coat of the eye, or uvea, is the posterior lamin of the iris; so called by the ancients, because in the animals which they dissected, it resembles an unripe grape.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.