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Definition of Sensilla
1. a simple sense organ [n -LAE]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensilla
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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