Sensillum

noun

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

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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).

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