antennae

Meaning of antennae

plural noun
  1. either of a pair of long, thin sensory appendages on the heads of insects, crustaceans, and some other arthropods.
    bugs use their antennae to detect blood heat
  2. a rod, wire, or other device used to transmit or receive radio or television signals; an aerial.
    a TV antenna

mid 17th century: from Latin, alteration of antemna ‘yard’ (of a ship), used in the plural to translate Greek keraioi ‘horns (of insects)’, used by Aristotle.

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Hyphenation of antennae

an-ten-nae

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
  • antennae is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with antennae

Cannae, cannae, transennae, pinnae, cramponnae, moutonnae

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