compound eye
one made of numerous units, called ommatidia, such as those found in certain arthropods
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby ...
The Compound Eye
The arthropod (e.g., insects, crustaceans) eye is built quite differently from the vertebrate eye (and mollusk eye).
compound eye -- Found in many but not all arthropods, a compound eye is composed of a large number of small, closely packed simple eyes (ommatidia), each with its own lens and nerve receptors.
compound eyes - sight organs made up of many facets found on the head of most insects; they do not occur in immatures of holometabolous insects ...
compound eye
a type of multi-faceted eye in insects and crustaceans consisting of up to several thousand light-detecting, focusing ommatidia; especially good at detecting movement.
Compound eyes are found among the arthropods and are composed of many simple facets which give a pixelated image (not multiple images, as is often believed)[citation needed]. Each sensor has its own lens and photosensitive cell(s).
compound eye An eye consisting of many individual lens systems (ommatidia). Present in many members of the phylum Arthropoda.
Compound eyes have many complete visual units, each of which collects light independently. The lens of each visual unit focuses the image on light sensitive membranes of a small number of photoreceptors within that unit.
They usually have compound eyes. Compound eyes have a series of facets, each one acts like a little eye with its own parts. A fly's eye is a classic example of a compound eye. They also have complete digestive tracts.
In most invertebrates the years are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See ocellus.
The eyes produced were the compound eyes of flies but the machinery for making these eyes could be turned on by mammalian eyeless protein. Despite the independent evolution of eye structure and over ...
 See also: Compound, Organ, Trans, Human, Cells
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