sensilla
sensilla — noun
1. a tiny sense organ on the outer surface of an insect or other invertebrate, typi
a tiny sense organ on the outer surface of an insect or other invertebrate, typically shaped like a hair, peg, plate, or cone, and made up of only a few cells linked to a nerve
Ryo sketched the sensilla he saw on the tip of a mosquito's antenna.
A single sensilla on a honeybee's leg can detect the sweetness of a flower.
sensilla + can detect [stimulus]
When a cockroach feels a draft, the sensilla on its back fire a warning.
Diya counted over forty sensilla on one segment of the caterpillar's body.
The moth uses the sensilla on its feathery antennae to find a mate in the dark.
用法筆記
Sensilla is the usual singular form in English entomology; the Latin-derived plural is sensillae. Some textbooks use sensillum as the singular and sensilla as the plural instead.