compound eye Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˌkɒm.paʊnd ˈaɪ]
  • Us [ ˌkɑːm.paʊnd ˈaɪ]

Meaning of compound eye In English

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Examples of compound eye

  • All grown-up insects have compound eyes, though not many have as large ones as the dragon fly. 

  • Each big eye is really a cluster of little eyes, rather like the "compound eyes" of insects. 

  • It has two simple, and two sets of compound eyes. 

  • The head is remarkable for its large globular compound eyes, its short bristle-like feelers, and its very strong mandibles which bite up the bodies of the victims. 

  • We do not know how they hear, nor how they see through their compound eyes, and our ignorance concerning the majority of their senses still further increases the difficulty, which so often arrests us, of interpreting their actions. 

  • Intrinsic control of rhabdom size and rhodopsin content in the crab compound eye by a circadian biological clock.

  • Fine structural changes in dark-light adaptation in relation to unit studies of an insect compound eye with a crustacean-like rhabdom.

  • Optics and evolution of the compound eye.

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Translations of compound eye In Other Languages

  • 中文繁体

    (昆蟲的)複眼(由許多獨立晶狀體構成的眼器官)…

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  • 中文简体

    (昆虫的)复眼(由许多带有独立晶状体的器官组成的眼器官)…

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  • Polski

    oko złożone…

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