: one of the movable peduncles bearing an eye at the tip in a decapod crustacean
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Once the jellyfish can see the outlines of its environment, signals from its four simple brains (one in each eyestalk) steer it home to shallow coastal waters from Puerto Rico to Australia — and, unfortunately, toward tropical beachgoers, who dread the animal’s dangerous sting.
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Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
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eyestalk
noun
eye·stalk
-ˌstȯk 
: a movable stalk bearing an eye at the tip in a crustacean
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