antennary

Definitions

Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of an antenna: as, an antennary nerve. Specifically
In entomology, bearing antennæ: applied to that segment of the head of insects which bears the antennæ.

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They say the munitions were new; that they were in a compound there; that they were attracted to this compound, because they say people moving in it, and they saw antennary equipment, extensive antennary equipment above this compound.

CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2002 2002
Antennal fossa - w: grooves or cavities in which antennae are located or concealed: = a. grooves: antennary fossa.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
There are here not any of the signs of life to which I have been accustomed in my old studies of insect paralysis: the antennary threads waving slowly to and fro, the palpi quivering, the mandibles opening and closing for days, weeks and months on end.

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
With a silent flight, not without spirit, the males especially wheel and wheel about, extending their great antennary plumes; they go to and fro, to and fro, a procession of flying shadows upon the pale blue of the sky in which the last light of day is dying.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869