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Definition of Compound eye
1. Noun. In insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image.
Definition of Compound eye
1. Noun. A visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. It consists of one to thousands of tiny independent photoreception units. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Compound eye
1. The eye of arthropods, most highly developed in insects and crustaceans; the eye consists of a group of functionally related visual elements (ommatidia) whose corneal surfaces collectively form a segment of a sphere. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compound Eye
Literary usage of Compound eye
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The compound eye of the king-crab (Limulus) is the only recognized instance of
ommatidia in their simplest state. Each can be readily compared with the ..."
2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eúgen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"The development of the paired compound eye has been best studied in the Decapoda
... The description of the development of the compound eye cannot be ..."
3. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"... VIEW OF THE compound eye OF A FLY, SHOWING SOME OF THE THOUSANDS OF CORNEAL
FACETS Corresponding to each facet is a complete "eye-element," including a ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In the compound eye, properly so called, the two membranes, external and internal,
constituting the cornea, aro both divided into facets, ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1892)
"I should like to be allowed here to make a protest against the continued application
of the term "facetted" to the corneal surface of the compound eye, ..."
6. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1888)
"part of compound eye, fore compound. Each of the small eyes of AJJ greatly enlarged.
which they ... Each simple eye resembles an ocellus of a compound eye. ..."
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