Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of sensillum
Your body is covered in little sensors called sensilla. These tell your brain about the world around you via your nervous system. It's how you can touch, smell, and taste stuff. You've got seven different types of sensilla just on the tips of your antennae.
2023, translated in 2025, Berta Páramo and translated by Marc Correa Haro, Lice: How to Survive on Humans, pages 30-31
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with sensilla
villamanilaAnguillagorillaGodzillaPriscillachinchillaflotillamanillaSillascintillaScyllaDrusillamaxillacedillapapillaaxillahydrillacamarillabarillamantillaperillaancillascilla
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Cite this entry
APA
sensilla. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sensilla
MLA
“sensilla.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sensilla. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sensilla,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sensilla.
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