Ocellus Definition

ō-sĕləs
ocelli
noun
ocelli
The simple eyespot of certain invertebrates, as distinguished from the compound eye of an insect or the camera-type eye of vertebrates and cephalopods.
Webster's New World
An eyelike spot, as on a peacock's feathers.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Ocellus

Noun

Singular:
ocellus
Plural:
ocelli

Origin of Ocellus

  • Latin diminutive of oculus eye okw- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin ocellus (“little eye"), from oculus (“eye")

    From Wiktionary

Ocellus Sentence Examples

  • In Aurelia there are two on each rhopalium, a simple ocellus on the exumbral side, and a cupped ocellus on the subumbral side (not present in young individuals).

  • The simple form of ocellus described in the foregoing paragraph may become folded into a pit or cup, the interior of which becomes filled with a clear gelatinous secretion forming a sort of vitreous Modified after Linko, Travaux Soc. Imp. Nat., St.

  • A similar ocellus is formed in Aurelia among the Scyphomedusae (q.v.).

  • The simplest type of ocellus is exemplified by the exumbral ocellus of Aurelia, a simple patch of pigment-cells interspersed with visual cells, the whole on a level with the remaining ectodermal epithelium.

  • In the next stage of complication, seen in the supernumerary (seventh) ocellus of Charybdaea, the patch of pigmented and sensory epithelium is pushed in to form a little pit, in the T Aurelia aurita.

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