Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small antenna or similar organ, especially one of the first pair of small antennae on the head of a crustacean.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
antennula .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small antenna; -- applied to the smaller pair of antennæ or feelers of Crustacea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A small
antenna
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, diminutive of antenne, antenna, from Medieval Latin antenna, sail yard; see antenna.]
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hernesheir commented on the word antennule
Railway telegraphers' shorthand meaning "If we have no answer by". --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 19, 2013