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- noun Plural form of
ommatidium .
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Examples
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The insect envoy lifted a hand, turned his head sideways, and preened his ommatidia.
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His ommatidia worked well and he could spot danger way in advance.
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The eyes of insects such as bees and dragonflies are made up of tens of thousands of tiny components called ommatidia.
Archive 2006-04-01 Mac 2006
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Brilliant orange and yellow ommatidia formed the large compound eyes.
Flinx In Flux Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1988
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Brilliant orange and yellow ommatidia formed the large compound eyes.
Flinx In Flux Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1988
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Then a shadow darkened his ommatidia and he keeled over on his left side.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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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 ...
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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Even if they hadn't seen ommatidia to ommatidia all the time.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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Even if they hadn't seen ommatidia to ommatidia all the time.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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His ommatidia sparkled in the light from the console.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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