NOUN
- in insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image
How To Use compound eye In A Sentence
- There is not only one way, as is demonstrated by the compound eyes of arthropods.
- That portion of the epicranium which lies immediately behind the frons and between the compound eyes is termed the vertex.
- Throughout the euphausiids, decapods, and stomatopods, larvae invariably possess compound eyes, which are naturally complicated structures.
- The results revealed that the timing of pigmentation of compound eyes and adult emergence were delayed by treatment of KK-42 before 36th hours after pupation.
- For the fossil record of the Cambrian Explosion does not reveal the gradual development of life forms as Darwin posited in his work, but a period in which compound eyes, articulated limbs, sophisticated sensory organs and skeletal frames burst into existence seemingly out of nowhere. Darwin's Dilemna Premiering
- The retina of the compound eye is organized into approximately 3000 functional units or ommatidia, each containing eight photoreceptor cells.
- The upper or dorsal side of the prosoma is equipped with two prominent kidney-shaped compound eyes, and in the middle a pair of small ocelli or simple eye-like sense-organs.
- Their compound eyes have up to 30,000 facets, each of which is a separate light-sensing organ or ommatidium, arranged to give nearly a 360° field of vision, important for taking prey on the wing, as has done the female shown above. Michigan in Pictures
- Between the compound eyes are usually three simple eye, or ocelli.
- The compound eye of Drosophila is composed of hundreds of nearly identical ommatidia or unit eyes.
