From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcompound eye/leaf etccompound eye/leaf etc technicala single eye, leaf etc that is made up of two or more parts → simple → compound
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compound eye/leaf etc• Instead, it forms a huge domed shield on the front of which are two bean-shaped compound eyes.• It forms the greater part of the brain and innervates the compound eyes and ocelli.• The silverfish, for example, has compound eyes but others in the group are blind.• First, insects have compound eyes consisting of up to several thousand optical units called ommatidia, each with a single lens.• That portion of the epicranium which lies immediately behind the frons and between the compound eyes is termed the vertex.• There is not only one way, as is demonstrated by the compound eyes of arthropods. 