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Definition of Antennal

1. Adjective. Of or relating to antennae. "Antennal senses of insects"

Definition of Antennal

1. a. Belonging to the antennæ.

Definition of Antennal

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or functioning as an antenna ¹

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Definition of Antennal

1. antenna [adj] - See also: antenna

Medical Definition of Antennal

1. Belonging to the antennae. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antennal

Literary usage of Antennal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1890)
"The aborted structures of the forelegs of the males of many of the species have been described and figured by me: the peculiar antennal characters have not ..."

2. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"The antennal sclerites.—In some insects there is at the base of each antenna an annular sclerite; Fig. 49. ..."

3. Journal of Economic Entomology by Entomological Society of America, American Association of Economic Entomologists (1910)
"Male, length 2 mm., abdomen dark brown; 14 antennal segments, the fifth with a length about three times its diameter. Female, length 2 mm., abdomen reddish ..."

4. Monographs of the Diptera of North America by Hermann Loew, Carl Robert Osten-Sacken, Smithsonian Institution (1867)
"Second antennal joint with a thumb-like projection over the inside of |_ the ... Third antennal joint in both sexes, or at least in the male, prolonged, ..."

5. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1917)
"... upper pair of dorsal head-hairs in fives, lower in threes, ante-antennal tuft multiple. Lateral comb of eighth segment of six to eight scales on a weak ..."

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