Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Rhabdom

Rhabdom (rab"dom) , noun

[Greek "ra`bdwma a bundle of rods, from "ra`bdos a rod.]

(Zoology) 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.