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OMMATIDIUM (ommatidia)
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Irregular inflected form: ommatidia
Dictionary entry overview: What does ommatidium mean?
• OMMATIDIUM (noun)
The noun OMMATIDIUM has 1 sense:
1. any of the numerous small cone-shaped eyes that make up the compound eyes of some arthropods
Familiarity information: OMMATIDIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the numerous small cone-shaped eyes that make up the compound eyes of some arthropods
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("ommatidium" is a kind of...):
ocellus; simple eye; stemma (an eye having a single lens)
Holonyms ("ommatidium" is a part of...):
compound eye (in insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image)
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