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OMMATIDIUM
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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
Classified under:
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)