Antennation

//æntɪˈneɪʃən// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An act of antennating, or touching the antennae to another insect. countable, uncountable

    "Soldiers’ stridulations elicited a smaller amount of antennations, but not statistically different from those elicited by Paussus favieri single pulses or worker stridulations."

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"Soldiers’ stridulations elicited a smaller amount of antennations, but not statistically different from those elicited by Paussus favieri single pulses or worker stridulations."

Etymology

From antennate + -ion.

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