compound eye

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   in insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image

   Broadereye

   Partsommatidium

Questions about compound eye

What does compound eye mean?

compound eye means "in insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image".

Is compound eye a common word?

compound eye is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.