sensillum

== English == === Alternative forms === sensilla === 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). === Noun === sensillum (plural sensilla) (zoology) A sensory receptor in certain invertebrates, especially arthropods. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “sensillum”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.