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compound eyes

compound eyes is the plural of compound eye.

Meaning of compound eye

Noun

compound eye (plural compound eyes)

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

Questions about compound eyes

What is compound eyes the plural of?
Compound eyes is the plural of compound eye.

Words near compound eyes in the dictionary

  1. compound engine
  2. compound engines
  3. compound exercise
  4. compound exercises
  5. compound eye
  6. compound eyes
  7. compound fracture
  8. compound fractures
  9. compound fruit
  10. compound fruits
  11. compound householder

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