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(archaic, zoology) Part of the eye of an invertebrate which corresponds in function with the retina of a vertebrate, hypothetical membrane resembling the retina..
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Retineum means (archaic, zoology) Part of the eye of an invertebrate which corresponds in function with the retina of a vertebrate, hypothetical membrane resembling the retina..
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