English Explanatory Dictionary

sensillum

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sensory receptor in certain invertebrates, especially arthropods.

Word forms

sensillum sensilla

Etymology

Borrowed from German Sensillum, from New Latin sensillum, diminutive of Latin sēnsus (“perception, feeling”). Coined by German zoologist Ernst Haeckel in Systematische Phylogenie (1895).

Derived words

chemosensillum hygrosensillum mechanosensillum sensillum chaeticum thermosensillum trichosensillum
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