sensillum
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English
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Etymology
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
sensillum (plural sensilla)
- (zoology) A sensory receptor in certain invertebrates, especially arthropods.
Derived terms
Translations
sensory receptor in invertebrates
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Further reading
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “sensillum”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.