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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of those cells of the embryonic eye of arthropods which secrete the chitinous crystalline cone on that surface which is toward the axis of the ommatidium. Also called vitrella.
Wiktionary
- n. zoology One of a group of two to four united cells which occupy the axial part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and contain the terminal nerve fibrillae.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) One of group of two to four united cells which occupy the axial part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and contain the terminal nerve fibrillæ. See
Illust. under ommatidium.
Etymologies
- retina + Ancient Greek -φόρος ("bearer"). (Wiktionary)
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