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Eye-spot

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Eye´-spot`
n.1.(Zool.) A simple visual organ found in many invertebrates, consisting of pigment cells covering a sensory nerve termination.


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When this is completed they are fixed for life: their legs are now converted into prehensile organs; they again obtain a well-constructed mouth; but they have no antennae, and their two eyes are now reconverted into a minute, single, and very simple eye-spot.
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