OMMATIDIUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: ommatidia   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the numerous small cone-shaped eyes that make up the compound eyes of some arthropods

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("ommatidium" is a kind of...):

ocellus; simple eye; stemma (an eye having a single lens)

Holonyms ("ommatidium" is a part of...):

compound eye (in insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image)

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