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compound eye
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compound eye: see eye eye, organ of vision and light perception. In humans the eye is of the camera type, with an iris diaphragm and variable focusing, or accommodation. Other types of eye are the simple eye, found in many invertebrates, and the compound eye, found in insects and many
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Each of the spiny creature's two compound eyes was a semicircular tower that sported about 280 individual lenses.
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