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holoptic

holoptic adjective: occupying most of the surface of the head, and sometimes meeting in the middle.

Adjective

holoptic (not comparable)

  1. Occupying most of the surface of the head, and sometimes meeting in the middle
    • Head holoptic, facets in dorsal half of eye enlarged.2015 July 27, Miroslav Barták, Štěpán Kubík, “Palaearctic species of Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) anfractuosa group (Diptera, Empididae)”, in ZooKeys, →DOI

Origin of holoptic

From holo- + optic.

Questions about holoptic

What does holoptic mean?
Holoptic means occupying most of the surface of the head, and sometimes meeting in the middle.
What part of speech is holoptic?
Holoptic is an adjective.

Words near holoptic in the dictionary

  1. holoprosencephalic
  2. holoprosencephalies
  3. holoprosencephaly
  4. holoprotein
  5. holoproteins
  6. holoptic
  7. holoptychiid
  8. holoptychiids
  9. holor
  10. holoreceptor
  11. holoreceptors

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