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Invertebrates vs Ommatidium - What's the difference?

invertebrates | ommatidium |

As nouns the difference between invertebrates and ommatidium

is that invertebrates is while ommatidium is (zoology) one of the conical substructures which make up the eyes of invertebrates.

invertebrates

English

Noun

(head)

    • ommatidium

    English

    (wikipedia ommatidium)

    Noun

    (ommatidia)
  • (zoology) One of the conical substructures which make up the eyes of invertebrates.
  • * 1996': the ‘compound’ eyes of insects [...] are made up of large numbers of facets or '''ommatidia , and in this sense, our own eyes are ‘simple’. — Michael J. Roberts, ''Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe (Collins 1996, p. 12)