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What is an ocellus?

What is an ocellus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A simple eye consisting of a single lens and a small number of sensory cells.
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You might like to place an ocellus or black spot on the tail of your fly using a magic marker.
When the ocellus includes a lunular spot of a different colour.
Insects have two sets of organs for vision, the faceted eye and the so-called simple eye, or ocellus.
The King then sent Constantine and ocellus, but, seizing one under each arm, he bore them off likewise.
The head is enclosed in a hard, heavily sclerotized, unsegmented, exoskeletal head capsule, or epicranium, which contains most of the sensing organs, including the antennae, ocellus or eyes, and the mouthparts.
The lower margin or base of the dark-blue centre of the ocellus is deeply indented on the line of the shaft.

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