compound eye

English

Noun

compound eye (plural compound eyes)

2. (zootomy) A visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. It consists of one to thousands of tiny independent photoreception units.

compound eye of a krill.

Translations

a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans

• Catalan: ull compost m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 複眼 / 复眼 (zh) (fùyǎn)

• Dutch: facetoog (nl) n
• Finnish: verkkosilmä (fi)
• Galician: ollo composto m
• German: Facettenauge (de) n, Komplexauge n
• Hungarian: összetett szem (hu)
• Icelandic: samsett auga (is) n
• Japanese: 複眼 (ja) (ふくがん, fukugan)
• Korean: 복안(複眼) (ko) (bogan), 겹눈 (gyeomnun)
• Manx: yl-hooill f
• Moksha: сложнай сельме (složnaj seľme)
• Polish: oko złożone (pl) n, oko mozaikowe n, oko fasetkowe n
• Spanish: ojo compuesto m
• Swedish: fasettöga n
• Turkish: petek göz (tr)