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n. - An eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); An eye having a single lens.

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  • In dinoflagellates, four types of eye-spots are known: type A, an independent structure that is not membrane-bound; type B, an independent membrane-bound structure; type C,...
  • All have compound eyes and may or may not have a single ocellus over each eye.
  • Aquila In nubibus Imperator literatorum, columen literarum, abyssus eruditionis, ocellus Europae, Scaliger.
  • Frontal lobes: in Psyllidae, two lobes or swellings more or less completely divided by a suture in which an ocellus is situated.
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