: one of the movable peduncles bearing an eye at the tip in a decapod crustacean
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By that point, Marge is already running toward the woodshop, desperately trying to see straight out of her bulbous eyestalks.
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2025
One of its features, however, was a surprise that is not seen in any living members of the millipede or centipede families: eyestalks.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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.
—Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2025
One of its features, however, was a surprise that is not seen in any living members of the millipede or centipede families: eyestalks.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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.
—Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
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“Eyestalk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eyestalk. Accessed 7 Dec. 2025.
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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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