A compound eye is an eye made of hundreds of tiny separate lenses. The compound eye of a fly.
It gives poor detail and superb detection of movement, which is why flies are hard to swat. A dragonfly's compound eye has around thirty thousand lenses in it.
1nouncompound eyeAn eye made of hundreds of tiny separate lenses.
“The compound eye covers most of the insect's head.”
compound eye is an eye.
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