Ommatidia

Word OMMATIDIA
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Definitions and meanings of "Ommatidia"

What do we mean by ommatidia?

One of the conical substructures which make up the eyes of invertebrates with compound eyes.

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The word "ommatidia" in example sentences

The insect envoy lifted a hand, turned his head sideways, and preened his ommatidia. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His ommatidia worked well and he could spot danger way in advance. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The eyes of insects such as bees and dragonflies are made up of tens of thousands of tiny components called ommatidia. ❋ Mac (2006)

Brilliant orange and yellow ommatidia formed the large compound eyes. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1988)

Then a shadow darkened his ommatidia and he keeled over on his left side. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1982)

The adult's chiton was purple, and purple was a color that had been described to him and now he knew what it was and the ceramic inlay in the doctor's forehead was a single bar of silver crossed by two bars of gold and his ommatidia were red with gold and yellow central bands and they gleamed in the light of the room and ... and ... ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1982)

Even if they hadn't seen ommatidia to ommatidia all the time. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1982)

His ommatidia sparkled in the light from the console. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1982)

His eyes were simple, and there were no ommatidia to throw back rainbows at the stupefied watchers, but they gleamed a little in their own way from beneath slightly slanted brows. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1977)

Fenestrate membrane: of the compound eye is at the base of the ommatidia, at their junction with the optic nerve; see retina. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Wakakuwa M, Stavenga DG, Arikawa K (2007) Spectral organization of ommatidia in flower-visiting insects. ❋ Peter Skorupski Et Al. (2010)

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