Definition of Sensilla

1. Noun. (plural of sensillum) ¹

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Definition of Sensilla

1. a simple sense organ [n -LAE]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensilla

sensibleness
sensiblenesses
sensibler
sensibles
sensiblest
sensibly
sensical
sensically
sensifacient
sensiferous
sensific
sensificatory
sensify
sensigenous
sensile
sensilla (current term)
sensillae
sensillum
sensimeter
sensimilla
sensing
sensing element
sensings
sensism
sensisms
sensist
sensists
sensitisation
sensitisations
sensitise

Literary usage of Sensilla

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Entomology, with Special Reference to Its Ecological Aspects by Justus Watson Folsom (1922)
"Antenna 1 sensilla.—Some idea of the diversity of form in antennal sense organs may be obtained from Figs. 118-127, taken from a paper by Schenk, ..."

2. Entomology: With Special Reference to Its Biological and Economic Aspects by Justus Watson Folsom (1906)
"These types of sensilla will be referred to in physiological order. Touch.—The tactile sense is highly developed in insects, and end-organs of touch, ..."

3. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1915)
"The first and second segments are well provided with slender tactile hairs (Text-fig. 3.4, THr) which have been called sensilla ..."

4. The Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1900)
"Some groups are distinguished by the possession of other peculiar sensilla, the meaning of which is still unknown to us. But it is already clear from the ..."

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