antennae

UK/ænˈtɛni/

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Antennae are the pair of feelers on an insect's head. Waving antennae, long antennae, clean its antennae.

They smell, taste and feel at once, and a moth's can detect a single molecule of scent from a mile away. The plural is antennae for the feelers and antennas for aerials, which is a neat split English has settled into. Note that the Latin antenna meant a ship's yard-arm.

Definitions of antennae

1nounantennaeThe pair of feelers on an insect's head.B2
“The butterfly slowly moved its antennae as it rested on the flower.”

antennae is sense organs.

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antennae in the wild

Many crustaceans, for example, have free-swimming larvae that use their antennae for swimming.
Antenna (zoology)
Distinctive traits of Andorians include their blue/green skin, a pair of cranial antennae, and white hair.
Andorian
A few species have short antennae (e.g., Neandra brunnea), making them difficult to distinguish from related families such as Chrysomelidae.
Longhorn beetle
The second pair of antennae are biramous, and the major joint within the body is located between the fourth and fifth body segments.
Harpacticoida
In June 1982, a headline of The New York Times called them Martian antennae.
Deely bobber

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