||Ret`i*noph"o*ra (?), n.; pl.
Retiniphoræ (#). [NL., fr. NL. & E.
retina + Gr. ???? to bear.] (Zoöl.)
One of group of two to four united cells which occupy the axial
part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and
contain the terminal nerve fibrillæ. See Illust. under
Ommatidium.