- acone eye
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(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)A condition (possibly primitive) of a compound eye in which the ommatidium is lacking a crystalline cone, but is modified in the form of elongated transparent bodies called Semper cells; see pseudocone, eucone, exocone.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.