antennation

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From antennate +‎ -ion.

Noun[edit]

antennation (countable and uncountable, plural antennations)

  1. (entomology, of an insect) An act of antennating, or touching the antennae to another insect.
    • 2015 July 9, “The Pied Piper: A Parasitic Beetle’s Melodies Modulate Ant Behaviours”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      Soldiers’ stridulations elicited a smaller amount of antennations, but not statistically different from those elicited by Paussus favieri single pulses or worker stridulations.

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