📚 noun • entry_id 46418
ommatidium
/ɒməˈtɪdɪəm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
omatidio
One of the conical substructures which make up the eyes of invertebrates with compound eyes.
The ‘compound’ eyes of insects [...] are made up of large numbers of facets or ommatidia, and in this sense, our own eyes are ‘simple’.
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