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in insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image
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A compound eye is a visual organ found in certain arthropods such as some insects and crustaceans. It consists of between 12 and 1,000 ommatidia which are tiny sensors that distinguish between brightness and darkness. The image perceived by the arthropod is a combination of inputs from the numerous ommatidia, which are oriented to point in slightly different directions. ...
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| compound eye |
[KOM-pound i] the major insect eye, composed of many individual facets or lenses.
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| compound eye |
an eye containing many lenses, each of which sees only a small portion of the whole image; arthropods such as insects and crayfish have compound eyes
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| compound eye |
Paired, lateral aggregation of separate visual elements (ommatidia) located on the head. See: Ocellus.
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