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Sensillum

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

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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