Etymology

sensillum

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Today it means: A sensory receptor in certain invertebrates, especially arthropods. Full definition →

German Sensillum ← New Latin sensillum
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  1. New Latin · derived fromsensillum
  2. German · borrowed fromSensillum
  3. English todaysensillum

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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