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eyestone

The English word “eyestone” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, especially an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinidae, used to remove a foreign substance from the eye.
  2. Eye agate.

Etymology

From eye + stone.

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