eyespot
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈʌɪspɒt/
eyespot (plural eyespots)
- (biology) Any of various primitive light-sensitive organs or regions in many diverse organisms.
- 2011, Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2011, p. 12:
- The eyespot is a complex sandwich of membranes with rows of granules that contain around 200 different proteins, including the same rhodopsins found in the retina of our own eye.
- 2011, Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2011, p. 12:
- An eye-like marking on the tail of a peacock or the wing of a butterfly.
- (botany) Any of a group of fungal infections of grasses that are characterized by oval spots; strawbreaker
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