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Definition of Eyestalk
1. n. One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.
Definition of Eyestalk
1. Noun. A motile stalk having an eye at the tip ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eyestalk
1. a stalklike structure with an eye at its tip [n -S]
Medical Definition of Eyestalk
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyestalk
Literary usage of Eyestalk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Design, Operation and Training Manual for an Intensive Culture Shrimp Hatchery by Granvil D. Treece, Joe M. Fox (1999)
"These problems were alleviated with the use of unilateral eyestalk ablation,
which provides moderate stimulus without reabsorption ..."
2. The Crayfish: An Introduction to the Study of Zoology by Thomas Henry Huxley (1880)
"The free extremity of the eyestalk presents a convex, soft, and transparent
surface, limited by an oval contour. The cuticle in this region, which is termed ..."
3. An Introduction to the Study of Zoology: Illustrated by the Crayfish by Thomas Henry Huxley (1891)
"The free extremity of the eyestalk presents a convex soft, and transparent surface,
limited by an oval contour The cuticle in this region, which is termed ..."
4. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals: A by Gilbert Charles Bourne, Arthur Bolles Lee (1902)
"Viewed with a lens the eye appears as a convex oval area at the extremity of the
eyestalk. It is covered with a soft colourless cuticle, the cornea, ..."
5. Principles of Breeding: A Treatise on Thremmatology Or the Principles and by Eugene Davenport, Henry Lewis Rietz (1907)
"It was found, however, by both Herbst and Morgan independently, that " when the
end only of the eyestalk is cut off an eye regenerates, ..."
6. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals by Gilbert Charles Bourne (1902)
"Viewed with a lens the eye appears as a convex oval area at the extremity of the
eyestalk. It is covered with a soft colourless cuticle, the cornea, ..."
7. The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes: Being by John Stanley Gardiner (1903)
"... but a small mass of pigment can be seen through the transparent underside of
the eyestalk, at some distance from the cornea. The systematic position of ..."
8. An Elementary Course of Practical Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Newton Parker (1900)
"A, Longitudinal section of eyestalk ; B, ... a, vitreous body; b, retinula; ca,
cornea, continuous with ent, cuticle of eyestalk; tn, muscles ; om, ..."
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