vitrella

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English

Etymology

Diminutive of Latin vitrum (“glass”).

Noun

vitrella (plural vitrellae)

  1. (zoology) One of the transparent lens-like cells in the ocelli of certain arthropods.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vitrella”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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