Definitions
A sensory feeler on an insect or a device for sending or receiving signals.
Word origin
From Latin antenna, antemna (“yard, sailyard; pole”). First used in this sense as a Latin word in the 15th century and as an English word by the end of the 17th century.
Used in a sentence
“The overall shape of most insect antennae is elongate and cylindrical, although elaborations into plumose, lamellate, or pectinate forms have arisen many times in different insect lineages.”
“The basis of these relationships lies in the olfactory chemoreceptors of insect antennas...”
“Most nurses believe they are born with an antenna of sorts, which is able to guide them through clinical practice and help them determine what is right and what is not...”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Receiver for signals”7 letters
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