Definition of Sensillae

1. sensilla [n] - See also: sensilla

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensillae

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

Literary usage of Sensillae

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

1. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1899)
"sensillae in annelids are less sensitive than those in aquatic ... These organs, which are of the same nature and function as the dermal sensillae in ..."

2. The Metamerism of Nephelis: With a Description of Nephelis Lateralis by Charles Lawrence Bristol (1899)
"The inner, or median, branch of nerve V corresponds to the anterior lateral nerve of a body somite and innervates a few ventral sensillae on the /th annulus ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"The segmental sensillae and scattered sense organs are very indistinct. Eyes are very difficult to detect in the mature animals, but appear as small pigment ..."

4. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"External morphology, showing sensillae, annulation, and limits of somites. c, clitellum; V-XXVII, somites; *,, 6,, a,, h, b,, ..."

5. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... according to Lubbock, at least eight different types of sensory organs, consisting of modified hairs or sensillae (Whitman) and pits. ..."

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