eyespot

eyespot

English

Etymology

From eye +‎ spot.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʌɪspɒt/

Noun

eyespot (plural eyespots)

1. (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.

2. An eye-like marking on the tail of a peacock or the wing of a butterfly.
3. (botany) Any of a group of fungal infections of grasses that are characterized by oval spots.

Translations

light-sensitive organ or region

Czech: oční skvrna f

Icelandic: augndíll m, augnblettur m, sjónblettur m

marking on tail or wing

Czech: oko (cs) n

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