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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rodlike structure in the center of each ommatidium in the compound eye of an arthropod, composed of microvilli extending from the surrounding retinular cells.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, a special structure in the eye, consisting of a concrescence of the rods developed on the cells of the retina, when these cells are themselves united in a retinula.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulæ in the compound eyes of insects, etc. See
Illust. underommatidium .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the
rods that support eachommatidium in thecompound eye ofarthropods
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Greek rhabdōma, bundle of rods, from Greek rhabdos, rod; see rhabdomancy.]
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