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COMPOUND EYE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does compound eye mean?
• COMPOUND EYE (noun)
The noun COMPOUND EYE has 1 sense:
1. in insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image
Familiarity information: COMPOUND EYE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("compound eye" is a kind of...):
eye; oculus; optic (the organ of sight)
Meronyms (parts of "compound eye"):
ommatidium (any of the numerous small cone-shaped eyes that make up the compound eyes of some arthropods)
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