sensillum
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed 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[edit]
sensillum (plural sensilla)
- (zoology) A sensory receptor in certain invertebrates, especially arthropods.
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Translations[edit]
sensory 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.