eyespot
nounUK /ˈʌɪspɒt/
Etymology From eye + spot.
1
Biology, Natural sciences Any of various primitive light-sensitive organs or regions in many diverse organisms.
- 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, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 12:
2
An eye-like marking on the tail of a peacock or the wing of a butterfly.
- Derived terms
- eyespotted