sensillum
English
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editEtymology
editBorrowed from German Sensillum, from New Latin sensillum, diminutive of Latin sēnsus (“perception, feeling”). Coined by German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician and artist Ernst Haeckel in Systematische Phylogenie (1895).
Noun
editsensillum (plural sensilla)
- (zoology) A sensory receptor in certain invertebrates, especially arthropods.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editsensory receptor in invertebrates
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Further reading
edit- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “sensillum”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.