Usually means: Multiple lenses, one visual unit.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. compound eye: Merriam-Webster
  2. compound eye: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compound eye: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. compound eye: Collins English Dictionary
  5. compound eye: Vocabulary.com
  6. compound eye: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Compound eye, Compound eye, Compound eye, Compound eye, Compound eye, Compound eye: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. compound eye: Wiktionary
  9. compound eye: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. compound eye: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. compound eye: Dictionary.com
  12. Compound Eye, Compound eye: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. compound eye: Rhymezone
  14. compound eye: FreeDictionary.org
  15. compound eye: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. compound eye: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compound eye: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compound eye: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. compound eye: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)
  2. compound eye: Natural History Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (compound eye)

noun:  A visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. It consists of one to thousands of tiny independent photoreception units.

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