Meaning of eyespot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of various primitive light-sensitive organs or regions in many diverse organisms.
   countable
2. An eye-like marking on the tail of a peacock or the wing of a butterfly.
   countable
3. A coloured spot in a motile gamete or spore, which is sensitive to light.
   countable
4. Any of a group of fungal infections of grasses that are characterized by oval spots; strawbreaker.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

CEFR level