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antenna
/ænˈtɛnə/
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What does antenna mean?
noun
- An appendage used for sensing on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.
- An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
- (figuratively) The faculty of intuitive astuteness.
More meanings (2)
noun
- A fragment of an oligosaccharide
- The spar to which a lateen sail is attached, which is then hoisted up the mast.
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IPA pronunciation
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In this manner an antenna from 40 to 50 feet in height may be obtained.
In the male the modified antenna is either swollen in the middle or angularly bent, or converted (Fig.
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With a frightful qualm, I turned, and I saw that I had grasped the antenna of another monster crab that stood just behind me.
They would examine with a conscientious eye the antenna, the mandible, the wing, the leg, without asking themselves what use the insect had made of those organs in the exercise of its calling.
Its arms were fully as slender as its legs, and upon a rather long neck was perched its head—not unlike the head of a man, except that its nose ended in a curling antenna, or “feeler,” and its ears from the upper points bore antennae that decorated the sides of its head like two miniature, curling pig tails.