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Eyespot

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Word	Definition
ocellusnoun	An eyelike marking in the form of a spot or ring of colour, as on the wing of a butterfly or the tail of a peacock.

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Word	Definition
ocellusnoun	An eyelike marking in the form of a spot or ring of colour, as on the wing of a butterfly or the tail of a peacock.
light organnoun	(biology) A luminous organ of an animal.
eye animalculenoun	(dated) A flagellate protozoan belonging to Euglena and related genera, having a coloured spot like an eye at one end.
photophorenoun	(biology) A light-emitting organ, found in some fish and other marine animals.
ocelloidnoun	(microbiology) a cellular structure found in unicellular microorganisms that is analogous in structure and function to eyes, which focus, process and detect light
ommatophorenoun	An eyestalk.
ommatidiumnoun	(zoology) One of the conical substructures which make up the eyes of invertebrates with compound eyes.
corneulenoun	(archaic, zoology) One of the corneas of a compound eye in certain invertebrates.
facetnoun	Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
stemmanoun	A family tree or recorded genealogy.
eyestalknoun	(anatomy) A motile stalk having an eye at the tip.
lagenar maculanoun	(anatomy) A vestibular sensory organ located at the apical tip of the cochlea in birds, fish, and amphibians.
leafspotnoun	A round blemish on the leaf of a plant, usually caused by parasitic fungi or bacteria.
rhabdomnoun	Any of the rods that support each ommatidium in the compound eye of arthropods
scolopidiumnoun	(zoology) The most fundamental unit of a mechanoreceptor organ in insects
synocilnoun	(zoology) A sense organ found in certain sponges, consisting of several filaments, each arising from a single cell.
amphidnoun	(nematology) One of a pair of chemosensory sense organs positioned laterally on the head of a nematode.
sensillanoun	Alternative form of sensillum. [(zoology) A sensory receptor in certain invertebrates, especially arthropods.]
organulenoun	(anatomy, dated) One of the essential cells or elements of an organ.
achaetenoun	(genetics) A proneural gene, often associated with scute, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs