Rhab"dom (?), n. [Gr. a bundle of rods, fr. "ra`bdos a rod.] Zool.

One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulae in the compound eyes of insects, etc. See Illust. under Ommatidium.

 

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