ommatidium in English
noun
1
each of the optical units that make up a compound eye, as of an insect.
In contrast, myriapods and chelicerates mostly lack compound eyes and the ommatidia of the few groups that have compound eyes are very different from insect/crustacean ommatidia .
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1. Apposition eye definition is - a compound eye that is characteristic of diurnal insects and in which entering light reaches the retina of each ommatidium as a …