compound eye

English

Noun

compound eye (plural compound eyes)

2. A visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. It consists of one to thousands of tiny independent photoreception units.

compound eye of a krill.

Translations

a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans

• Catalan: ull compost m
• Dutch: facetoog (nl) n
• Finnish: verkkosilmä (fi)
• Galician: ollo composto m
• German: Facettenauge (de) n
• Hungarian: összetett szem (hu)
• Icelandic: samsett auga (is) n
• Japanese: 複眼 (ja) (fukugan)
• Manx: yl-hooill f
• Polish: oko złożone (pl) n
• Spanish: ojo compuesto m
• Swedish: fasettöga n
• Turkish: petek göz (tr)