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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the minute transparent segments which defend the compound eyes of insects; the cornea of an ocellus; a cornea-lens.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology One of the
corneas of acompound eye in theinvertebrates .
Etymologies
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French, equivalent to cornea + -ule.
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