Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The eye of most insects and some crustaceans, which is composed of many light-sensitive elements, each having its own refractive system and each forming a portion of an image.
Wiktionary
- n. A visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. It consists of one to thousands of tiny independent photoreception units.
WordNet 3.0
- n. in insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘compound eye’.
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party animals
animal parts
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eye phrases
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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Arthropod Anatomy
ocelli, compound eye, antennae, pronotum, pedipalps, femur, tibia, scutellum, forewing, hindwing, halteres, sclerites and 10 more...
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Words About Me
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