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单词 ommatophore
释义

ommatophoren.

Brit. /ˈɒmətəfɔː/, /əˈmatəfɔː/, U.S. /əˈmædəˌfɔr/
Forms: 1800s ommatophor, 1800s– ommatophore.
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Ommatophor.
Etymology: < German Ommatophor (1878 in the source translated in quot. 1878 at main sense) < ancient Greek ὄμματ- , ὄμμα eye (see ommateum n.) + German -o- -o- connective + -phor -phore comb. form.
Zoology.
A part of an invertebrate animal, esp. a tentacle, that bears an eye; an eyestalk.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > eye > part bearing
ommatophore1878
ophthalmophore1890
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 354 The tentacle..which may be converted into a special eye-stalk (ommatophor).
1890 Cent. Dict. at Ommatophore The ommatophores of crustaceans are called ophthalmites.
1967 Indo-Pacific Mollusca 445 The ommatophores are very long, and the tentacles..are extremely small and located just behind the distally-located eyeball.
1991 Acta Zoologica 72 233 The brain commissures and the innervation of, inter alia, the antennae, the palps and the ommatophores..are described.

Derivatives

† ommatophorous adj. Obsolete rare bearing an eye.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Ommatophorous, bearing eyes, as an eye-stalk; functioning as an ommatophore.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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