Antennata (an ten at a)

pl. [NL., neut. pl. of an ten nat us: see antennate.] A group of annelids, approximately corresponding to the order Chatopoda (which see). antenna , q. v.] Having antennæ. antenniferous (an-te-nif'e-rus), ), a. [ an tenna + L. ferre =E. bear1 .] Bearing antennæ; antennary, as a segment of the head. antenniform (an-ten'i-fôrm), a . [ antenna + L. form a , form.] Shaped like an antenna; resembling an antenna in any way. The cement ducts can be traced to the disks of the an tenniform organs. Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 259. antennula (an-ten'ū-lä), n.; pl. antennula (-lē). [NL., dim. of antenna, q. v.] 1. A little antenna.-2. A filiform appendage of an antenna, as in some crustaceans.-3. The appendage of the segment or somite of the head of an arthropod in advance of that bearing the antennæ proper; one of the anterior of the two pairs of feelers of the head of a crustacean. Commonly called the short feeler. See cuts under Copepod a, Cyclops, and Cythereida. Also antennule .