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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  • Railway telegraphers' shorthand meaning "If we have no answer by". --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.

    January 19, 2013