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Definitions of ocellus in various dictionaries:
noun - an eye having a single lens
noun - an eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies)
A small simple eye, found in many invertebrates, usually consisting of a few sensory cells and a single lens.
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| Eyelike spot, as on peacock feathers |
| Eyelike spot |
| Peacock's eyespot |
| Presumably one simply looks round for a room in the States? |
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| Mar 10 2011 Thinks.com |
| Jul 4 2010 Boston Globe |
| Mar 10 2009 Thinks.com |
| Mar 10 2007 Thinks.com |
| Mar 15 2005 Universal |
| Mar 30 2000 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
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| another term for |
| A small simple eye, found in many invertebrates, usually consisting of a few sensory cells and a single lens. |
| A marking that resembles an eye, as on the tail feathers of a male peacock an eyespot. |
| an eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies) usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color |
| an eye having a single lens |
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A simple eye (sometimes called a pigment pit) refers to a type of eye form or optical arrangement that contains a single lens. A "simple eye" is so called in distinction from a multi-lensed "compound eye", and is not necessarily at all simple in the usual sense of the word. The eyes of humans and large animals, and camera lenses are classed as "simple" because in both cases a single lens collects and focuses light onto the retina or film. Many insects have compound eyes consisting of multiple lenses (up to tens of thousands), each focusing light onto a small number of retinula cells. * The structure of an animal's eye is determined by the environment in which it lives, and the behavioural tasks it must fulfill to survive. Arthropods differ widely in the habitats in which they live, as well as their visual requirements for finding food or conspecifics, and avoiding predators. Consequently, an enormous variety of eye designs are found in arthropods: they possess a wide variety of novel sol |