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Ocellus   Listen
noun
Ocellus  n.  (pl. ocelli)  (Zool.)
(a)
A little eye; a minute simple eye found in many invertebrates.
(b)
An eyelike spot of color, as those on the tail of the peacock.






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"Ocellus" Quotes from Famous Books



... Its two huge eyes extend in two vast oval patches from the centre of the top of the cranium down either side of the head to below the roots of the horns, so that these weapons really grow out from the lower part of the eyes, which are composed of several thousand ocelli each. Each ocellus is furnished with its own lid, and the apt can, at will, close as many of the facets of his huge eyes as he chooses. (See THE ...
— Thuvia, Maid of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs



Words linked to "Ocellus" :   optic, eyespot, stemma, ommatidium, simple eye



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