eyespot
English
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[edit]eyespot (plural eyespots)
- (biology) Any of various primitive light-sensitive organs or regions in many diverse organisms.
- 2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 12:
- The eyespot is a complex sandwich of membranes with rows of granules that contain around 200 different proteins, including the same rhodopsins found in the retina of our own eye.
- An eye-like marking on the tail of a peacock or the wing of a butterfly.
- Synonym: ocellus
- (botany) Any of a group of fungal infections of grasses that are characterized by oval spots; strawbreaker
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[edit]light-sensitive organ or region
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