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- New Latin · derived fromcorneola
- French · borrowed fromcornéule
- English todaycorneule
From French cornéule, from New Latin corneola, diminutive of cornea. By surface analysis, cornea + ule.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: One of the corneas of a compound eye in certain invertebrates. Full definition →