compound eye

English

Noun

compound eye (plural compound eyes)

A visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. It consists of one to thousands of tiny independent photoreception units.

compound eye of a krill.

Translations

a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans

Catalan: ull compost m
Dutch: facetoog (nl) n
Finnish: verkkosilmä (fi)
Galician: ollo composto m
German: Facettenauge (de) n
Hungarian: összetett szem (hu)
Icelandic: samsett auga (is) n
Japanese: 複眼 (ja) (fukugan)
Manx: yl-hooill f
Polish: oko złożone (pl) n
Spanish: ojo compuesto m
Swedish: fasettöga n
Turkish: petek göz (tr)

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