plural of parent compound

(fencing) An attack consisting of more than one feint.

A visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. It consists of one to thousands of tiny independent photoreception units.

plural of compound eye

(chemistry) The simplest member of a class of compounds, from which the others are formally obtained by substituting radicals for hydrogen atoms.

(chemistry) a substance consisting of molecules of one element or compound contained within the cage-like structure of another

(organic chemistry) Any compound containing carbon atoms covalently bound to other atoms.

(chemistry) any compound which contains more than eight formally assignable electrons in a valence shell directly associated with the central atom in direct bonding with a number of ligands

(inorganic chemistry) Any compound not containing carbon atoms. / (inorganic chemistry) Any compound containing carbon atoms ionically bound to other atoms.

(chemistry) a crystalline solid consisting of a host lattice containing voids into which guest atoms or molecules are inserted