| 释义 |
compound eye  nounAn eye consisting of an array of numerous small visual units, as found in insects and crustaceans. Contrasted with simple eye.In addition to ocelli and compound eyes, some insects are quite sensitive to sounds, and their chemoreceptive abilities are astounding....- Fiddler crabs, like their arthropod cousins the insects, have compound eyes.
- A close-up view of a male blue dasher dragonfly shows the many lenslets of the insect's compound eyes.
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