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A visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. It consists of one to thousands of tiny independent photoreception units.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology, zootomy
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in insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: eye, oculus, optic
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Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
ull compost
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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Chinese Mandarin:
複眼 /复眼
(fùyǎn)
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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Dutch:
facetoog
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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Finnish:
verkkosilmä
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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Galician:
ollo composto
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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German:
Facettenauge
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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German:
Komplexauge
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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Hungarian:
összetett szem
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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Icelandic:
samsett auga
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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Japanese:
複眼
(fukugan)
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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Korean:
복안
(bogan)
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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Korean:
겹눈
(gyeomnun)
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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Manx:
yl-hooill
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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Moksha:
сложнай сельме
(složnaj seľme)
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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Polish:
oko złożone
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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Polish:
oko mozaikowe
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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Polish:
oko fasetkowe
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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Spanish:
ojo compuesto
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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Swedish:
fasettöga
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
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Turkish:
petek göz
— a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans
